GPL

Andrew Kelly akelly at corisweb.org
Wed Oct 10 08:13:46 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 21:39 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The FSF claim has been that if the program won't work with any library 
> > except the GPL'd one, it is a derived work even if it is distributed 
> > separately. 
> 
> There are things to support this sometimes being true. The fundamental
> division is the notion of a "derivative work" which is a legal not a
> computing construct and doesn't behave as neatly.
> 
> Never worried me as I consider postgresql the better database anyway

Isn't that akin to considering penicillin a better antibiotic than, say,
wombat feces?

<snark>






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