Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence
On Mon, 18 Mar 2019, David Given wrote:
Being merely dependent on third-party code is not, to my
understanding, sufficient to be considered derived code.
If code which is written to depend explicitly and heavily on the APIs
and frameworks provided by GPL is /not/ considered subject to the GPL,
but 'mere' 'aggregration', one would wonder why the LGPL would ever have
been drafted. One would wonder why readline was ever an issue for the
BSDs. etc., etc.
Your legal analysis is not inline with formal legal advice given by
qualified solicitors, who have examined this issue. That advice is that
the code concerned is deriving of the GPL code.
I will stick with the views of those qualified solicitors, over the view
of a software engineer, at least on legal matters.
regards,
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