On Jun 16, 2008, "Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> They claim that it doesn't matter if the components are >> distributed separately or not. For example, you can't modify a GPL'd >> component so that it needs a library under different terms even if the >> parts are never distributed together. > Sure you can. In the heyday of GNU software it was /only/ run on > propietary systems, and all that software was routinely modified > with the express purpose of running on newer/changed versions of > propietary systems (which were the only ones available, remember). But the permission to distribute the combined works is presumably covered by the system library exception. I don't think it's enough to distribute a non-GPLed library separately to have permission under the GPL to distribute a program derived from it. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
