Re: GPL and command-line libraries

[Ken Arromdee <arromdee@rahul.net>]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> If Mr Wontshare's client doesn't work without your software, this is
> what I call a derivative work. Whether it is linked to it using ELF or
> not is irrelevant.

So anything that runs on Windows is a derivative work of Windows?

This might not impact the GPL too much because of the OS exemption, but it
would mean that Microsoft could legally prevent the publication of any program
they want which only runs on Windows.