Approval of IWL - Consolidated Response

[Russ Nelson]

Gernot Heiser writes:
 > >>>>> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:13:10 -0700, Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com> said:
 > BP> FYI, I wrote OSD #9 and agree that its language is intended to prohibit
 > BP> the terms in your license section (c)(ii).
 > 
 > Ok, so please excuse my ignorance. If this is a problem for the IWL,
 > why is it not a problem for the GPL?

Because the GPL relies on there being a single work.  The GPL doesn't
try to reach across an API into other pieces of software.

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