Mike Cox wrote:
Where can I find this GNU GPL FAQ? Is it normative? Legaly binding?
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html It is legally binding in all courts exercising jurisdiction under the the authority of the GNU Republic.
Again, is mere dynamic linking the same as "incorporating GPL-covered software"?
17 USC Sec. 117 protects dynamic linking in memory unless contractually prohibited. Why do I say unless contractually prohibited? In 1976 Congress authorized The Commission on New Technological Uses: "This is the area of computer uses... the The Commission on New Technological Uses is, among other things, now engaged in making a thorough study of the emerging patterns in this field and it will, on the basis of its findings, recommend definitive copyright provisions to deal with the situation." --- House Report No. 94-1476 See http://digital-law-online.info/CONTU/contu6.html (See the last sentence of this CONTU report quoted below) "One who rightfully possesses a copy of a program, therefore, should be provided with a legal right to copy it to that extent which will permit its use by that possessor. This would include the right to load it into a computer. . . Should proprietors feel strongly that {Page 14} they do not want rightful possessors of copies of their programs to prepare such adaptations, they could, of course, make such desires a contractual matter." **The federal courts follow these recommendations very closely**
Mike Cox (the_real_mike_cox) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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