On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> If Mr Wontshare's client doesn't work without your software, this is
> what I call a derivative work. Whether it is linked to it using ELF or
> not is irrelevant.
So anything that runs on Windows is a derivative work of Windows?
This might not impact
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:53:21PM +0100, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
> 4. Writing to debian-legal and asking for advice.
Now that's a good idea. Why did you do that on debian-devel instead?
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Måns Rullgård writes:
> Actually, copyright law talks a great deal about derivative works,
> without ever going to the trouble of defining them...
The US statute does so, but US case law defines them fairly well.
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Once upon a time Wesley W. Terpstra said...
> Good evening!
>
> I'm developing an error-correcting code library which works on a lot of data
> at once. Since the API is quite simple and the cost of process creation
> relatively insignificant, I would like to provide a command-line API.
>
> ...
>
"Wesley W. Terpstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Good evening!
>
> I'm developing an error-correcting code library which works on a lot of data
> at once. Since the API is quite simple and the cost of process creation
> relatively insignificant, I would like to provide a command-line API.
>
> I
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 05:30:36PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> Given that Mr. Wontshare's client represents only a small investment of
> effort, "refuses to port" doesn't sound like much of a problem.
I meant to say relatively small investment; sorry.
Even simple applications can be hard to rewrit
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:53:21PM +0100, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
> What I am concerned about is the following scenario:
>
> Mr. John Wontshare writes a streaming multicast client.
> To deal with packet loss, he uses my error-correcting library.
> Without my library, Mr. Wontshare's client can't
Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 11:00:54PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
>> Le mardi 02 novembre 2004 à 21:53 +0100, Wesley W. Terpstra a écrit :
>> > Mr. John Wontshare writes a streaming multicast client.
>> > To deal with packet loss, he uses my error-correc
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 11:00:54PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 02 novembre 2004 à 21:53 +0100, Wesley W. Terpstra a écrit :
> > Mr. John Wontshare writes a streaming multicast client.
> > To deal with packet loss, he uses my error-correcting library.
> > Without my library, Mr. Wontsh
Wesley W. Terpstra writes:
> Mr. Wontshare's client represents only a small investment of effort and
> without having had access to my library, he could have never written it.
> He then distributes his client along with my library to end-users.
If his client represents only a small investment of e
Le mardi 02 novembre 2004 à 21:53 +0100, Wesley W. Terpstra a écrit :
> Mr. John Wontshare writes a streaming multicast client.
> To deal with packet loss, he uses my error-correcting library.
> Without my library, Mr. Wontshare's client can't work at all.
> Mr. Wontshare's client represents only a
* "Wesley W. Terpstra"
| What can I do to prevent the above scenario from happening?
I don't think you can, at least not while keeping the library DFSG
free. (I guess it would be fairly trivial to write up a similar
application which would not be affected by your license for the
application, on
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:53:21PM +0100, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
> If someone writes a program that does: popen('my-api');
> does the GPL require that program to also be GPL?
> From the short answer I got on IRC it seemed the answer was: No!
See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLPlugi
Good evening!
I'm developing an error-correcting code library which works on a lot of data
at once. Since the API is quite simple and the cost of process creation
relatively insignificant, I would like to provide a command-line API.
I feel this has several engineering advantages:
1) it's easier t
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