Re: GPL traitor !

[Rjack]

Hyman Rosen wrote:
> Rjack wrote:
> > Your are right as rain!! Read GPL sec. 1 regarding the unmodified
> >  verbatim library segments that are copied into the collective 
> > work!! GPL sec. 1 does *not* involve licensing of non GPL code.
>
> Creating a collective work incorporating a copyrighted element is 
> in no way making a verbatim copy of that element.

What happens to the static element such that it is "modified" code?

> > "If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the 
> > Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and 
> > separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, 
> > do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as 
> > separate works."
>
> The elements incorporated into the collective work formed by 
> creating a statically linked executable file are not distributed as
>  separate works.

Sure they are: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/. You can explicitly
compile each routine into a separate GPL'd "*.o" module by using
compiler options. These modules are then free for the World to use
by authority of sec. 1 of the GPL.

Sincerely,
Rjack.