> It is interesting I think that of the two interpretations of the GPL > represented by the many people in this thread, it seems that > there are those in the "Rosen camp" as described in > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6366, http://www.rosenlaw.com/lj19.htm > (Rosen is general counsel of OSI) or the Moglen camp (general > counsel for the FSF). My personal interpretations of the use > of the GPL are more in line with Rosen's. For example, Rosen states:
While I may appear to agree with the Moglen/FSF interpretation, I much prefer the Rosen/OSI interpretation. The problem is that if I get taken to court for a GPL violation, neither Rosen nor Moglen get to decide my fate, some court does. This creates uncertainty. A rational response to uncertainty is conservatism. I feel that the more conservative (and less risky) interpretation is the Moglen/FSF one as it is more restrictive. I think this is the reason that the Moglen/FSF interpretation is more commonly taken as "fact" by companies involved in open source development. > "In most cases we shouldn't care how the linkage between separate > programs was technically done, unless that fact helps determine > whether the creators of the programs designed them with some apparent > common understanding of what a derivative work would look like. We > should consider subtle market-based factors as indicators of intent, > such as whether the resulting program is being sold as an “enhanced” > version of the original, or whether the original was designed and > advertised to be improvable “like a library”." > > I think Sage is designed to be improvable "like a library". If you agree and > you > agree with Rosen's interpretation then I think you also agree that typical > notebook worksheets are not derivative works. That's my opinion anyway. Yes, I agree with this hypothetical. Cheers, Brian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
