In article <[email protected]>, Hyman Rosen <[email protected]> wrote:
>Thus, copyright holders of GPLed components grant permission for their >works to be copied as part of a collective work only if the work as a >whole is distributed under the GPL. And this applies best when the This is of course nonsense unless you have specific addition information from such authors. The GPL does not include a rule that would allow to make such a claim. As long as you only have the GPL text, there is no requirement to have every needed part under GPL just because it is used for compiling/linking a GPL program. There are e.g. independently developed libraries that may be under any license (see GPL section 3). -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
