Re: Question about licensing
On 10-Jun-99, 21:39 (CDT), Bruce Perens <bruce@va.debian.org> wrote:
> From: Maury Markowitz <maury@OAAI.COM>
> > If YoyoDyne wants to put a GUI wrapper around the dpkg, what then?
> > Does making a GUI wrapper for the product become a case of
> > "incorporating" it into a propietary system?
>
> A non-GPL GUI wrapper around a GPL product could be considered a _derived_
> product and could be a GPL violation.
>
> > Even if the original code is completely unchanged?
>
> It could still be considered an extension of the program, since the GUI has
> no other purpose but to run that program.
Really? If I write a GUI that uses dpkg *only* via
'system("dpkg --command arg");'
that would be a derived work? I'm surprised; it never occurred to me
that would be the case. Are you sure?
Steve
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