Re: XFree86 license difficulties
MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com> writes:
> On 2004-02-02 20:11:45 +0000 paul cannon <pik@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I understood that the FSF's
>> opinion
>> on this is not universal. That is, it is not an irrational view that
>> dynamically linking to a library is only _using_ that library, not
>> creating a derived work from it.
>
> Some works with copyright held by FSF are affected by this, so their
> published opinion probably would count.
The copyright owner does not have the right to dictate rules
contradicting copyright law. Not even if he believes copyright law is
immoral.
> However, if there is a good reason why the result of a compile that
> included a file from a work, which appears only in that work because
> it is an extension unique to that work, is not derived from that work,
> I'm interested to read it.
You seem to be forgetting that dynamic linking doesn't include any
files.
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Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se
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