* Mns Rullgrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060319 01:14]: > Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Not just linking; it's the creation of a derivative work of a GPLed > > work. Frankly, I don't see how you can argue that cdrecord is not a > > derivative work of the GPLed part of cdrecord and the build system. > > I disagree. The final executable is no more a derivative of the build > system than it is of the compiler. After all, no parts of the > makefiles end up inside the executable.
I think derivative or not is not the question here, but the GPL explicitly demands that the build system is available under GPL-compatible changes. from Section 2 of the GPL: # b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in # whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any # part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third # parties under the terms of this License. from Section 3 of the GPLL: # Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable # source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections # 1 and 2 above on a medium [...] # For an executable work, complete source # code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any # associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to # control compilation and installation of the executable. "scripts used to control compilation" is clearly what we currently refer to as "build system". Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
