In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But if you use code that is copyrighted, say by linking or
otherwise
Writing a plug-in for the GIMP does not do anything prohibited by
copyright. Even if you include header files and such, that comes
under there's just one way to do it, which makes it OK. So you
don't need permission and you don't need to distribute it under any
particular license.
If the program depends on the other program in some manner, then yes
you do.
Depends on is does not automatically require copyright permission. If
work X depends on Y, in the sense that X is useless without Y, and X
interfaces at run time to Y and Y's data, that *can* be OK. See, for
example, the various video game cases, where third parties made cheat
add-ons for video games, without permission of the game makers.
The relevant question is whether or not X is a derivative work of Y, not
whether or not it depends on...in some manner.
--
--Tim Smith
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