On Sat, 04 Mar 2000, Ken Arromdee wrote: > According to RMS, plugins are *also* derivative works, so both your examples > would come under the GPL. (Which produces the odd result that it is legal > to write a GPL plugin for Internet Explorer but not for Netscape 4, since > Internet Explorer comes under the system component exception.) At the risk of not showing proper deference, it doesn't matter much what RMS believes. He is not infallible. Of course I realize that he is the author of the license in question. However, he has already professed a strong bias in the matter. It is his bias that forces me to look elsewhere for objectivity. -- David Johnson... _____________________________ http://www.meer.net/~arandir/
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