Need consulting
Lawrence E. Rosen
lrosen at rosenlaw.com
Thu Jun 5 17:17:28 UTC 2003
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Nelson [mailto:nelson at crynwr.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 8:52 AM
> To: Roman
> Cc: osi at opensource.org
> Subject: Re: Need consulting
> Lblsa writes:
> > We develope new commercial software, based on libvpopmail.
> > Source codes is not changed by ours. Can we in this case
> not > let others to see ours source code? > Also we
> interested : (ISSUE!!!!) > How link type of our software
> with this library (static, dynamic) > depende from that issue?
>
Russ Nelson answered:
> You get different answers depending on who you ask. Our
> (OSI's) lawyer has published an article in Linux Journal in
> which he says that dynamic linking does not create a
> derivative work. The Free Software Foundation says that even
> dynamic linking creates a derivative work.
Your (OSI) lawyer makes his point much more clearly here:
http://rosenlaw.com/html/GL18.pdf.
/Larry Rosen
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