These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If
identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program,
and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those
sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you
distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based
on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of
this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the
entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote
it.
I wouldn't bet my code on the interpretation I'm about to offer, but...
Couldn't one ship a proxy application under GPL that sits between a MySQL
server and a closed source client and satisfies this clause? Seems to me all
one would have to do is show that the closed source client could use various
proxies, all of which speak the same generic language over TCP/IP to the
client, to connect to other DBs, thereby satsifying "independent and
separate".
I believe PDF995 takes a similar approach. (http://www.pdf995.com/faq.html)
The program can claim that it is independent and separate since it can use
numerous PostScript to PDF converters, but of course they point you to the
free GNU Ghostscript converter if you don't have a commercial one to use.
Daniel L. Taylor
Taylor Design
Computer Consulting & Software Development
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.taylor-design.com
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