Re: GPL traitor !

[Alexander Terekhov]

Hyman Rosen wrote:
> 
> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > Hyman Rosen is different; he reckons he's found a bug in copyright law,
>  > based on a mechanical, pedantic reading of some laws, and he's arguing
>  > to try and find the flaw;
> 
> The flaw is not in copyright law. The flaw is in your interpretation of
> copyright law as forbidding certain things which it actually permits.
> 
> The GPL is irrelevant; the interoperability which you believe is forbidden
> is in fact legal with any other program, regardless of its copyright, because
> there is no copying of the other program involved. You may make GCC code
> generators, Excel add-ins, Vista screen savers, or what have you without
> needing to be concerned with the copyrights of those other programs.

+1

regards,
alexander.

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