Re: license issue: calling a GPLv2 library

[Alexander Terekhov]

David Kastrup wrote:
[...]
> The GPL does not demand _anything_ as long as you are not using
> _others'_ property licensed under the GPL.  And then _their_ property
> rights chip in, and they are perfectly allowed to give you license

Except that the GPL blatantly misstates the scope of property rights
under copyright. It pretends that both 17 USC 109 and 117 are simply
nonexistent (true in the GNU Republic). Then comes the issue of price 
fixing at predatory ("no charge") level of pooled IP in derivative 
and collective works.

regards,
alexander.