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Re: LICENSES [was: Re: Have you seen this?]



> > If I use libc, I don't think I am creating a libc. Unless I am, I'm not
> > deriving, I think. If I use libc, I simply use the services. Hence, libc
> > is "a section of" the thing I am making, and does not derive from it.
> 
> Your program derives from libc by being linked with it. This is precisely
> why an LGPL has to exist. 

So this isn't "derivative" in the sense of the OOP idiom "IS-A"...

and you're saying that all I have to do to "derive from" something, is to
include it unmodified or modified?

-Jim


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