Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you write a single-purpose GUI shell for "dpkg", that should indeed be > considered a derivative work of dpkg - even though it doesn't incorporate > dpkg into its address space, the effect is not very different than if it had > done so.
And if someone writes a single-purpose GUI shell for the networking code in a certain proprietary desktop OS (to pick a completly random name, suppose the fancy GUI shell was called 'Netscape'), it should be considered a deriviative work of said proprietaty OS? Some guys in Redmond, WA would be delighted to hear that. -- Henning Makholm
