Re: Interesting discussion on gcc about objc

[Gregory Casamento]

Nicola,

I won't be drawn into this discussion with you as only David knows the
specifics.

I also don't want you to spread FUD on this subject while refusing to
discuss it with the person you're accusing.

Whether it's "legal" or not depends on the specifics of how it was
done and only David knows that.

GC

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Nicola Pero
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Nicola,
>>
>> I believe the fundamental mistake you're making here lays in the claim
>> that it's derived in the first place
>>
>> As the person making the assertion that it is, you do, in fact, need
>> to discuss this with David.
>
> David started with libobjc and made changes.  For me that is the definition
> of a derived work.  If you start from scratch (ie, no pre-existing codebase),
> that is the definition of a new work.
>
> But I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know.  Certainly taking an official FSF
> GNU GPL codebase as the starting point for a MIT-license project is not
> exactly the smartest thing you can do in legal terms.  The resulting legal
> minefield is not for me to sort out.
>
> Thanks
>
>



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