Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs

[David Kastrup]

Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:

> Arnoud Engelfriet wrote:
> > 
> > Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> > > No judge in his right mind can ever consider linking to be
> > > exclusive privilege of software copyright owner.
> > 
> > I'm not sure that the Linux license status is comparable to other
> > GPL-licensed works. But in any case, without binding case law
> > a prudent lawyer must prepare for the worst. It may be unlikely,
> > but if the unlikely interpretation hurts your client, your
> > client should prepare for it.
> 
> Yes. The only problem is that such "prudence" means tremendous loss 
> of world-wide productivity, it puts a barrier for many would-be-
> contributors, etc.

So you prefer falling over backwards and recommending recklessness.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum