From: Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> (1) Programs that use other programs are derivative.
Yes. In general, operating systems come with licenses that allow you to use
their publicly-exported APIs without that use being considered a derived work.
But they make that _choice_ when they license their operating systems.
MS did not choose to rule out third-party applications, becuase they felt
that such applications would improve the market for their operating system.
I'm more concerned about the server-client boundary. These days, you can call
a library that's on another machine just as easily as if it was in your own
address space. Given that the two are functionally equivalent, is it not a bug
that copyright law applies more obviously to one than the other?
Thanks
Bruce
