OT: Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

[Mike McCarty]

Donald Arseneau wrote:
> Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net> writes:
> 
> 
>>Donald Arseneau wrote:
>>
>>>Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>However, linking a "work that uses the Library" with the Library creates an
>>>>executable that is a derivative of the Library (because it contains portions
>>>>of the Library), rather than a "work that uses the library".
>>>
>>>This "linking" is what we'd normally refer to as "static linking",
>>>where the library code is included in the executable.  Dynamic linking to a
>>>shared object library does not cause portions of the
>>>library to be included in the executable.
>>
>>Are you a lawyer? Four corporate lawyers I know were of a different
>>opinion than you are.
> 
> 
> No I am not a lawyer, and so I am capable of understanding the license.
> Lawyers are clueless as to when portions of a library are included in 
> an executable.  You should have given them more technical support.

You weren't there. Why do you suppose it took days? We argued and
argued. I used the same argument you did.

>>All were agreed that if a "linker" were run,
>>then the code was "linked",
> 
> 
> "Linking" also means a html reference like <a href=...>.  By your logic
> that would also virally propagate the GPL.

The issue is not what the lawyers believed about the
license, but what the lawyers believed one could get a jury to
understand.

And anyway, whether the lawyers are right or are wrong is
irrelevant. It's what they say that's important, because
that is what is going to dictate company actions. And if the
lawyers act nervous, it isn't going to be done.

Period.

Mike
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