On Sunday 22 September 2002 22:06, Joerg Schilling wrote: > From: Andreas Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> You can't GPL part of your program however, and have GPL > >> incompatible code linked into it. > > This statement is not correct
Erm, the GPL puts your program under what's known as a "strong copyleft". This forbids linking with non-GPL-compatible code. I quote (GPL (http://www.gnu.org/ , clause 2, sentence 5): "But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it." Given that cdrdao without libedc_ecc is under the GPL, cdrdao with libedc_ecc linked in is then a derived work, which must be published under the GPL entirely. Since the libedc_ecc license forbids this, it follows that our premise is incorrect. So we must conclude that the parts of cdrdao without libedc_ecc cannot be published under the GPL. Lourens -- GPG public key: http://home.student.utwente.nl/l.e.veen/lourens.key -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
