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Re: More GPL questions


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: More GPL questions
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:23:56 +0200
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"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:

>    Unfortunately, Alfred's enthusiasm for free software often gets
>    the better of him and makes him claim theories that are not
>    supported by even the FSF.  So when in doubt, rather consult the
>    relevant FAQs, license texts and the responsible FSF personnel
>    for getting the FSF's view.
>
> Simply false.  The response I gave is what the FSF would tell you
> and anyone else.  If you feel that it is wrong, please quote line
> and verse since yet again you resort to personal attacks, lies and
> FUD.

In the message you replied to, I already wrote:

    I recommend reading <URL:http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html>
    and judging so for yourself.  It states, for example:

    <URL:http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleAlone>

    which makes clear the mechanism by which a combined executable to
    be covered as a whole by the GPL is affected by non-GPLed
    libraries.  It is certainly not by the non-GPLed libraries
    suddenly becoming derivatives of any other code.

It is disingenuous to cut away that passage and then protest that I
did not provide anything like it.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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