Alexandre Oliva wrote:
If it's silly, then you shouldn't have any problem showing where it is
executed as part of "the Program",
Execution is irrelevant, because copyright law doesn't apply to this
act.
Does that mean you disagree with the FSF claim that it is not permitted
to distribute non-GPL'd software that dynamically links to unique
libraries only available under the GPL? And the GPL's 'work as a whole'
concept doesn't apply to the running program? If it is actually
permissible to deliver any combination of components separately under
different licenses with tools to combine them at run time, then the GPL
is not nearly as harmful as I've believed.
It is *distributed* as part of the program, and that's what copyright
law restricts by default.
Which is irrelevant if you have permission to distribute all parts. It
is only the weirdness of the GPL denying the right to distribute under
many conditions that even makes this a question.
And it's distributed as inseparable part of
the program while at that.
I don't see how you can say it is inseparable when the firmware
downloader understands the separation perfectly - and nothing else
really needs to. Or that it's a part of the program since it gets
installed on different hardware - except maybe for the CPU microcode.
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