Re: GPL traitor !

[Hyman Rosen]

Rjack wrote:
> The inserted GPL library code is verbatim and unmodified.

Untrue - static linking makes changes to the inserted library
code as addresses are resolved. But that's probably not relevant.

> The whole compilation is in no way "based" on unmodified GPL'd
> library code.

False. The GPL itself defines what it means by "based", and that
definition states that it describes a work other than a verbatim
copy whose production requires copyright permission. A statically
linked executable is a collective work and creating and distributing
such a work requires copyright permission. Therefore it is a work
based on its elements according to the GPL.

> The library code is simply placed in memory segements aside other major
> non GPL code segments and "called" by the non GPL code for rote
> functional purposes. To claim the non GPL'd code is a program "based"
> on GPL'd library routines is preposterous.

This is false for static linking. A statically linked executable
is a single collective work in exactly the same way an anthology
is a collective work.