Re: Question about licensing
Bruce Perens <bruce@va.debian.org> writes:
> If you write a single-purpose GUI shell for "dpkg", that should indeed be
> considered a derivative work of dpkg - even though it doesn't incorporate
> dpkg into its address space, the effect is not very different than if it had
> done so.
And if someone writes a single-purpose GUI shell for the networking
code in a certain proprietary desktop OS (to pick a completly random
name, suppose the fancy GUI shell was called 'Netscape'), it should
be considered a deriviative work of said proprietaty OS?
Some guys in Redmond, WA would be delighted to hear that.
--
Henning Makholm
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