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Re: I really don't know where to post this. GPL License question
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Tim Smith |
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Re: I really don't know where to post this. GPL License question |
Date: |
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:27:11 -0800 |
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In article <478C99FF.AC68E1D5@web.de>,
Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> wrote:
> Tim Smith wrote:
> [...]
> > If, on the other hand, you mean that you might take the display code
> > from the PDF reader, and put that code IN your program, so it is just a
> > subroutine you call, then you are going to have to put your code under
> > GPL.
>
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/Licensing-HOWTO.html
>
> <quote>
>
> consider the case of two scientific papers which reference each
> other. The fact that paper B calls paper A (references it for
> support) does not make B a derivative work of A. This remains
> true whether B and A are published together in a symposium
> (analogous to static linkage) or separately (analogous to
> dynamic linkage). Computer programs are defined in 17 USC as
> literary works
>
> </quote>
But what he'd be distributing is the symposium itself. Whether B is a
derivative of A is irrelevant. He still needs permission to distribute
A, and GPL only gives that if the other works in the symposium are also
under GPL.
--
--Tim Smith