On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 10:34:36AM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > On Oct 12, 9:37 am, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 06:03:03AM -0700, Mike Cox wrote: > > > I am still confused. Does mere linking make the result realy > > > *contain* code from a GPL program? > > > > Most rational people consider it so, but you seem to want legal advice > > so I hope you follow the sane reasoning of taking the license to a > > lawyer and obtain a binding legal opinion. > > > > Otherwise, feel free to run the risks of getting fired or bankrupt. > > > > > How come they are allowed to do that but I am not? > > > > Are you sure they didn't get a proprietary license from the authors? > > It could also be the case that they haven't been caught yet... > > > > I'd find it a little strange that a Free software author -- no, not > just that, but one for the *GNU Project*, as I think "libbfd" is > GNU -- would agree to a proprietary (ie. goes against the ideals of > "Freedom") license, unless of course they realized that _their_ > stuff would still be free as you could get the code for it from > some place, eg they just gave a license that overrode the virality. > > First of all, the GNU GPL is not viral. You are free to not accept > it. Secondly, Rui is simply confused, most probobly not knowing that > BFD is part of the GNU projetc, and that the FSF is the copyright > holder. One cannot remeber what every tiny bit of software is part > of. > > However it still seems odd that a GNU Project author would > even support a proprietary project... > > He didn't. All Rui noted was that the copyright holder (not knowing > that it was the FSF) could have licnesed the program under a > proprietary license. This is a simple fact.
Yes, I had no idea it was a GNU project. If I did I wouldn't even raise the possibility :) Rui -- P'tang! Today is Sweetmorn, the 67th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3173 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss