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



On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 01:27:56PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> 
> 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.

That's why it's a test for aggregation, not derivation. Aggregation
happens at a different time.

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