On Fri, 19 October 2001, Angelo Schneider wrote:
> email@greglondon.com wrote:
> > 1) the GPL does not  prohibit linking
> Wy should it?
> If it would prohibit linking a lot of work published under GPL would be
> useless, e.g. all libraries.

ar, my bad, yet again. serves me right for trying to 
catch up on my email at 2 in the morning. how about:

1) (v1.1)  The GPL makes no claims that linking 
other software is a derived work of the original source.

The LGPL says this is the case.
is this based on a court ruling, 
or a law that says as much? 

this is the best analogy I can think of:

I copyright a JPEG. 

I assume fair use says users can translate the
JPEG mumbo-jumbo into a two-dimensional array
or RGB values (i.e. DERIVE).

Can I impose a restriction on what you 
do with that 2-D array once you have it?

i.e. I copyright source code under GPL.
I'm assuming fair use says users can translate
the source into usable machine instructions.
Can I impose a restriction on what you
can do with that machine level array once
you have it?

can I prevent you from displaying my translated
JPEG adjacent to proprietary images?

Greg





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