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On 2004-05-02 13:07:38 +0100 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
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where such libraries could be construed to have "interfaces", and
where the GPL is used to force a monopoly position, then any company
GPL cannot force a monopoly (in the meaning of EU Competition Law),
can it? Monopolies are dominant businesses, not dominant literary
works. I'm sure we've had EU-GPL-FUD because people misunderstood that
before.
or open source project with an incompatible license is entitled to
request a compatible license and if they do not receive one they
are entitled to treat the "interface" - i.e. the header files and
effectively the entire library - as not being subject to copyright
law!
Can you tell me what part of the directive actually says that, or
which you are basing this conclusion on, please? I did not find it at
a first inspection. I did see there are limited rights to
decompilation and I'm not sure whether a GPL-covered work would be
classed as not "readily available" thereby qualifying for that
section.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give,
--
MJR/slef
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