> > Let me ask you a "straightforward" question: if you dissolve sugar in
> > water, can you make the sugar boil?
> > 
> > [Seems to me that while you can make the sugar water boil, the sugar
> > itself does not.  There might be some rather exceptional conditions
> > where you could make sugar boil, but they have very little to do with
> > the conditions where sugar water boils.]
> > 
> > Similarly, the program, which includes the library, has to be license
> > under the GPL while the library -- considered as an entity unto itself --
> > does not.
> > 
> > If this doesn't make sense to you then I'd say that your question is,
> > in fact, not at all straightforward.

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On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 05:31:19PM -0500, Andreas Pour wrote:
> I have concluded that you don't understand the relevant principles of
> copyright law.

Please be specific.  Which principles are you refering to?

What is specific point of law on which we disagree?

-- 
Raul

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