Re: On interpreting licences (was: KDE not in Debian?)
On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 07:10:32PM -0500, Andreas Pour wrote:
> So don't put the binary in "main" :-); it's not so hard to have users
> compile the 2-3 apps that fall within the "KDE developers borrowed GPL
> code from another project" category.
We're not putting it in main.
> > What does it mean for a program to accompany itself? Why do you raise
> > this point?
>
> It's not that the program accompanies itself. The paragraph of Section 3 in
> question deals in terms of "components" and "modules", not entire executables. So
> in the hypothetical case we discuss, libc is a "component" (although statically
> linked, the library is a separate binary inside the "executable", if I understand
> the linking process correctly) which accompanies the GPL'd component inside the
> executable.
Component, in the GPL, refers to "major component of the operating
system". The word is only used twice, and both occurrences are in the
same sentence (this sentence is part of the special exception which
lets GPLed code be used on proprietary operating systems). And, the
GPL explicitly gives the kernel and the compiler as explicit examples
of what it means in that context.
--
Raul
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