two pieces of
> evidence that it is:
>
> (1) It won't behave according to the documentation if dpkg isn't present, and
> (2) It's distributed with dpkg
It's also distributed with bash, the Linux kernel, and so on. Is it a
derivative of all the software on the CD?
sage of gcc to do what gcc was designed for in their normal operation.
Using a program to do what it's supposed to do, as underlying
functionality, is simply use. It does not create some obscure new
"Program".
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| Jeff Teunissen -- President, Dusk To Dawn Computing -- [EMAIL PROTE
Raul Miller wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 10:15:29AM -0500, Jeff Teunissen wrote:
> > I haven't seen RMS claim that Emacs, using gcc as a backend to compile
> > code, is a derivative work of gcc. Nor has he taken issue with NeXT
> > Project Builder calling gcc t
Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 10:18:33PM -0500, Jeff Teunissen wrote:
> > Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> > >
> > > Are licenses where reverse engeneering is prohibiten invalid ?
> >
> > Yes, because reverse-engineering is strictly
ity. UW granted
specific rights, then revoked them for future versions. All of these
things are legal. But threatening legal action to keep people from
exercising the rights they already had under the older license? That
sounds awfully fishy, but you obviously can't force them to give you the
old so
attaches the
permission of use to individual copies, true, but all copies have the
same permissions due to the explicit permission to copy and/or modify. It
would require a new release, under a new license, to have a version that
couldn't be redistributed.
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| Jeff Teunissen -=- Pres., Dus
amic linking has been the exception rather than the rule for most of
the history of computing. Most libc's, even proprietary, allow
distribution of static binaries.
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| Jeff Teunissen -=- Pres., Dusk To Dawn Computing -- d2deek at pmail.net
| Disclaimer: I am my employer, so anything I
including, but not limited to, revised versions of this work."
[snip]
>
> This sounds like its DFSG complient to me, if nobody disagrees ill go
> ahead and make a package with the above quotation as the stated license.
"Only I am allowed to make derivative works" is DFSG-fr
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