On 2009-05-15, Joerg Schilling <j...@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote: > In article <gzwol.22205$hx2.11...@newsfe19.iad>, > Hyman Rosen <hyro...@mail.com> wrote: >>Alexander Terekhov wrote: >>> The law makes it clear that the GPL cant affect the licenses to >> > those preexisting component parts. Again, linking doesnt matter. >> >>This is false, for static linking. The exclusive right to authorize >>the copying of of a component into a linked program rests with the >>copyright holder. Therefore, to copy and distribute such a linked >>work requires permission from the copyright holder of each component, >>and the GPL requires that the work as a whole be distributed under >>the GPL. > > This is nonsense - sorry. > > There is no difference between static and dynamic linking.
How can you possibly, honestly, as someone that's supposed to actually have a clue, actually say this when you obviou sly know (assuming that you aren't just an imposter) that there are very real practical end user difference between dynamic and static linking? [deletia] Go torment someone that forked your work or something... -- On the subject of kilobyte being "redefined" to mean 1000 bytes... When I was a wee lad, I was taught that SI units were ||| meant to be computationally convenient rather than just / | \ arbitrarily assigned. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss