> > 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.
[ ... ] 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