Re: The legality of cdrecord
Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> wrote:
> Le samedi 10 novembre 2007 à 12:51 +0100, Joerg Schilling a écrit :
> > A GPL "work" that uses a CDDL library _may_ be a derived work from the CDDL
> > library. The CDDL library is definitely not a derived work of it's uers.
>
> Of course. But the *combined work* that is constituted by the CDDL
> library and the GPL program is derived from *both*. And you cannot
> distribute it because it has incompatible requirements.
You justz vefied again that you did not yet understand the GPL and Urheberrecht.
"The work" is the source of the program only.
"The executable work" is not under GPL. The rules in GPL §3 only require
only to allow users to be able to reproduce the binary.
Jörg
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