Re: Termination clauses, was: Choice of venue

[Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 11:51:35PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > I believe doing all this would be in the spirit of the GPL, though
> > distributing an installer that built the binary for a user and saying
> > "use this to get around the GPL" certainly would not be.
> > 
> > Do you think there's a violation in here somewhere?  Where?
> 
> Not really. But if it were a video library, rather than an mp3
> decoding one, and it were the only one supported (but you could
> optionally build with no video output) then I'd say there was -
> despite the rather cheap attempt to duck the issue, it would be a
> clear derivative, and the first infringing action would be the
> creation of that derivative.

Sure, that's the same as my last example, I think.  It doesn't seem to
mean that the source is a derivative work of the library, though.

Anyway, I think we're agreed as far as it usually matters in practice.

-- 
Glenn Maynard