For Approval: ACE License

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Mon Feb 28 15:51:34 UTC 2005


Forrest J. Cavalier III scripsit:

> Compilers and linkers build software, and the license on the tools
> does not cover the output the way this license tries to.
> 
> "Built using" means something different than "incorporates" or
> "derived from."

I think that's a perverse reading of the license:  programs are "built
with" libraries, and we are talking of libraries here, not compilers
or linkers.

Legal codes are not interpreted by computers.

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