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Re: GPL licenced Java application using non GPL jars (libraries)


From: Alexander Terekhov
Subject: Re: GPL licenced Java application using non GPL jars (libraries)
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 17:59:17 +0200

Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
[...]
> Your source code is yours to license as you please. The fact that it
> uses the Java mechanisms to call library code does not make it a
> derivative work of these libraries. 

Unless you happen to live in the GNU Republic.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt

"When a program is linked with a library, whether statically or using
a shared library, the combination of the two is legally speaking a
combined work, a derivative of the original library. "

Legally speaking, this is not true. Except under copyleft law of the
GNU Republic.

regards,
alexander.


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