Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

[Alexander Terekhov]

Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
[...]
> is not a derivative of the standard 'C' library, but that the
> copy that is created at run time in memory is a derivative
> work of both the source code and the standard 'C' library
> (or for Alex, a compilation, but that doesn't matter because
> the same protections are extended to compilations as to
> derivative works).

Copyright law doesn't establish exclusive right to prepare 
compilations (in addition to exclusive right to prepare derivative 
works). The term compilation doesn't include derivative works. So
it does matter. 

regards,
alexander.