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Re: Plugins, libraries, licenses and Debian



Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net> writes:

> Scripsit mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård)
>
>> I know that is how law works.  I just find it strange, that the GPL is
>> so explicit on this point, and yet doesn't bother to clarify at all
>> what a "derived work" might be, just to take an example.
>
> It's on purpose: The GPL wants as much as possible to be derived
> works.

Of the FSF wants it that way.  The problem is that they consider it
immoral if a commercial company uses similar reasoning.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se



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