On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 19:55:01 +0100, Maciej MrÃz wrote: > Unfortunately, GPL faq is extremely vague on such border cases, instead > of simple "yes/no" answers faq is filled with some advocacy talks ...
To re-iterate a point I made on a thread last week, nobody really knows what the GPL says and means on this topic. We can *barely* outline our ignorance, but even our ignorance is pretty fuzzy. Copyright-based models can't handle modern computer programs, and the GPL is still copyright-based. As such, it is hosed. (For an expansion of that idea, see http://www.jerf.org/writings/communicationEthics/node7.html ; note the next chapter tries to solve this problem in the context of more conventional communication, but even with my refinements I'm *still* not sure how to handle something like the GPL reasonably. I think you'd have to re-define what the GPL covers almost from scratch; I think it could be done, but I'm not sure you can fully rationally create an LGPL that doesn't have critical exceptions.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
