Re: A simple mistake (was Re: Should we ship KDE in hamm?)
Raul Miller wrote:
>Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> wrote:
>> In the third case, the distinction between dynamic and static linking
>> is irrelevant.
>
>It's always irrelevant. The GPL makes no mention of static vs. dynamic
>linking. Whatever is true for dynamic linking is therefore true for
>static linking.
No!
If you are looking at a legal document, you MUST look at what it actually
says. Since the GPL does not mention static versus dynamic linking, one
must see what it actually does say, which I analysed two or three posts
back. You have ignored this.
>> But, as I pointed out, clause 2 only applies to modifications; we do not
>> modify KDE in any way.
>
>That's not true, when uncompressed the diffs against kdebase are about
>160k.
The point was, that the KDE Debian maintainer is part of the KDE team and
the KDE debs are those published by KDE. WE, Debian, do not alter them.
>Also, I believe that under copyright law adding to a copyrighted work is
>considered to be a modification of that work. But I am not a lawyer and
>it's possible that I'm wrong on this point.
>
>> You have separated the second part of my posting (which refers to the
>> general problems of applying the GPL when modifying other people's
>> code) and made it apply to KDE, to which I made it clear it does not
>> apply.
>
>I think you need to check a few more facts.
Raul, please read my previous post more carefully.
The fact is, that the GPL is not particularly well drafted and definitely
needs revision in the light of new developments in software technology.
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