Re: GPL-licensed packages with depend-chain to OpenSSL
Raul Miller wrote:
>> On Sep 9, 2004, at 23:36, Glenn Maynard wrote:
>> > The GPL requires that all derived works be entirely available under the
>> > terms of the GPL.
>
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 08:35:59AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
>> Yes, but OpenSSL wouldn't be a derived work of the GPL program (it
>> can't be, because it was created before the GPL program).
>
> Irrelevant:
>
> The derived works in question isn't OpenSSL, the question is about the
> program which includes both the GPLed program and the OpenSSL library.
Ah.
Well, then the question is, is that combined program a derived work of the
GPLed program?
If it consists of two pieces: the GPLed program and the OpenSSL library --
and each exists and is fully functional without the other -- and neither is
a derived work of the other --
Then in that case we don't have a derived work, we have an aggregated work
or a collected work or some such.
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