Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs

[Rui Miguel Seabra]

On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 23:42 +0200, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> 
> [... netfiler's racketing ...]
> 
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=40A2027B.DDA419DC%40web.de

*sigh*

How clear can the Cornell site be? Do you understand English at all?


[3] "Derivative work" is a defined term:

        A "derivative work" is a work based upon one or more preexisting
        works, such as a translation, musical arrangement,
        dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound
        recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any
                                                               ^^^^^^
        other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        adapted.
        ^^^^^^^
                 A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations,
        elaborations, or other modifications which, as a whole,
        represent an original work of authorship, is a "derivative
        work".

To use a a library, you recast the work (the library) with your program.
So you've got to have permission to recast the work.

Now, a GPL'ed library gives explicit permission to recast the work IF
and ONLY IF you respect the conditions therein expressed.

Nothing else allows you to recast the work but the license.

Repeat after me:

Nothing else allows you to recast the work but the license.

Go eat my dust 'lex.

Rui

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