On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 08:00:32PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > The GPL requires derived works of GPLed software to be distributed > under the GPL. But it only becomes a "derived work" when it gets linked. Not "only". It becomes a derived work when it gets modified. "Linking" counts because of the idea that the binary is a translation of the original copyrighted source. -- Raul