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Re: Combining Artistic|GPL-1+ with GPL-2 and LGPL-3+



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-=| MJ Ray, Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 02:15:21PM +0000 |=-
> Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org> wrote:
> [...]
> > The files are separate, i.e. no compilation in the C source --> 
> > object code sense is taking place. The icons are loaded at runtime 
> > and used in the user interface.
> >
> > Does this sound like "a mere aggregation"?
> 
> Yes, in my opinion.  If you can change the icons at runtime without
> ill-effect (within reason - it's OK if the new icons must be the same
> size, for example) and it's just that they're in the same tar volume,
> that seems like mere aggregation to me.
> 
> See also http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation
> 
> I suggest that the icons are used only as runtime data and no
> information is interchanged with them.
> 
> Hope that explains,

It does indeed.

Thank you all for helping me put the pieces together.

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