Re: Question about licensing

[Bruce Perens <bruce@va.debian.org>]

From: Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net>
> 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.

Don't be silly. The Microsoft C library code is explicitly licensed to be
incorporated into applications. Dpkg is not. The Linux C library, for example,
is under the LGPL, instead of the GPL, to address _exactly_ this issue.

	Thanks

	Bruce