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On 2004-05-02 13:07:38 +0100 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> wrote:
where such libraries could be construed to have "interfaces", and where the GPL is used to force a monopoly position, then any company
GPL cannot force a monopoly (in the meaning of EU Competition Law), can it? Monopolies are dominant businesses, not dominant literary works. I'm sure we've had EU-GPL-FUD because people misunderstood that before.
or open source project with an incompatible license is entitled to request a compatible license and if they do not receive one they are entitled to treat the "interface" - i.e. the header files and effectively the entire library - as not being subject to copyright law!
Can you tell me what part of the directive actually says that, or which you are basing this conclusion on, please? I did not find it at a first inspection. I did see there are limited rights to decompilation and I'm not sure whether a GPL-covered work would be classed as not "readily available" thereby qualifying for that section.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ for creative copyleft computing