On Saturday 01 December 2001 01:06 am, David Woolley wrote: > David Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not at all. The exception only means that the license does not apply to > > certain works. It does not say that those works cannot have any license > > at > > Which means that there are no copyright permissions for the library, > and therefore those works, as derived works of the library, or at least > further copying of them is a breach of the copyright on the library. > Licences give permissions to do things that are otherwise illegal. > No licence, no permission.
Assuming that the license in question is a shared library, there are two possibilities: 1) Dynamic linkage does not constitute derivation. No problem. 2) Dynamic linkage does constitute derivation. However, since this is the same exceptions that most include files distributed with gcc and libstdc++. Uh oh! If you interpretation is correct, then all non-GPL C/C++ programs built with gcc are illegal. -- David Johnson ___________________ http://www.usermode.org pgp public key on website -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3