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Re: GPL-licensed packages with depend-chain to OpenSSL




On Sep 4, 2004, at 18:24, Andrew Suffield wrote:

Can I take these two packages on the same CD and split them apart
again, such that they are no longer aggregated, and still use them?

For example, you can't (or at least couldn't, disregarding modern
binary emulation tricks) realistically use a program linked against
solaris libc without solaris libc.

This smoke test suffers the problem that its determination of 'derivative work' changes over time.

I'm pretty sure that a work is either created derivative or not; it can't suddenly become or cease to become derivative (other than a court clarifying the definition of 'derivative work', of course).



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