From: "Christopher A. Watford" <christopher.watford@gmail.com>
To: skaller@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>,
caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Announcing the OMake build system version 0.9.1
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 12:42:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8008871f040906094251340b19@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1094488104.3352.1160.camel@pelican.wigram>
> I have no idea -- that's the point. My guess is the license
> is unenforcible because it depends on terms such as
> 'linkage' which can't be well defined in a unique way.
>
> The only way acceptable to a court would be 'community
> consensus' about what constitues linkage.
>
> I believe most people believe that
> at the moment static linkage to even LGPL (without Ocaml
> exemption) infects, but dynamic linkage doesn't.
>
> Given such an absurd distinction I doubt I have any
> real idea what the GPL actually says for more
> difficult cases.
>
> --
> John Skaller, mailto:skaller@users.sf.net
> voice: 061-2-9660-0850,
> snail: PO BOX 401 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia
> Checkout the Felix programming language http://felix.sf.net
The whole enforcement of licenses in dynamic linkage would mean that
before using a DLL or SO you'd have to somehow accept an EULA or have
some programatic way of saying your code agrees to their license.
Hell, what about code injection? Would that be illegal if I don't
accept the terms of their license? I'm fairly certain we run into very
murky licensing laws in this regard.
As for what you should do? Static linkage most definately should obey
the license of the library. Dynamic linkage? The end-user has agreed
to follow the library's license/terms, and has pointed an application
to its location. The application shouldn't have to follow any terms,
since its on the insistance of the user (dependency system, physically
downloading it, etc) that the dynamic library be available.
--
Christopher A. Watford
christopher.watford@gmail.com
http://dorm.tunkeymicket.com
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Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-04 16:26 Jason Hickey
2004-09-04 17:42 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-09-04 18:27 ` chris.danx
2004-09-04 19:59 ` Matthieu Dubuget
2004-09-05 5:20 ` skaller
2004-09-05 13:20 ` David Brown
2004-09-05 14:31 ` skaller
2004-09-05 16:02 ` David Brown
2004-09-05 16:14 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-09-05 15:07 ` chris.danx
2004-09-05 15:53 ` skaller
2004-09-06 0:25 ` chris.danx
2004-09-06 8:17 ` skaller
2004-09-05 13:38 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-05 14:50 ` chris.danx
2004-09-05 15:01 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-05 15:44 ` chris.danx
2004-09-05 16:10 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-05 17:38 ` skaller
2004-09-05 17:15 ` skaller
2004-09-05 16:11 ` skaller
2004-09-05 16:21 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-05 19:09 ` skaller
2004-09-05 15:08 ` skaller
2004-09-05 15:38 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-05 17:04 ` skaller
2004-09-05 18:45 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-05 20:12 ` skaller
2004-09-05 21:30 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-05 22:41 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-09-06 12:13 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-05 16:09 ` David Brown
2004-09-05 18:31 ` skaller
2004-09-06 10:56 ` Andreas Rossberg
2004-09-06 15:51 ` skaller
2004-09-06 7:11 ` Christian Lindig
2004-09-06 12:20 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-06 14:12 ` Christian Lindig
2004-09-06 1:06 ` Richard Jones
2004-09-06 1:50 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-09-06 9:09 ` skaller
2004-09-06 8:59 ` skaller
2004-09-04 23:58 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-09-05 1:18 ` james woodyatt
2004-09-05 1:26 ` [Caml-list] Perl Conjury (alternative to Unix make) james woodyatt
2004-09-05 2:03 ` [Caml-list] Announcing the OMake build system version 0.9.1 David Brown
2004-09-05 2:37 ` james woodyatt
2004-09-05 6:24 ` Nathaniel Gray
2004-09-05 20:38 ` Aleksey Nogin
2004-09-06 0:12 ` james woodyatt
2004-09-06 0:33 ` [Omake] " Aleksey Nogin
2004-09-06 3:54 ` Brian Hurt
2004-09-06 6:39 ` Jason Hickey
2004-09-06 8:10 ` james woodyatt
2004-09-06 7:50 ` [Omake] " Erik de Castro Lopo
2004-09-06 14:52 ` Brian Hurt
2004-09-06 17:20 ` skaller
2004-09-06 9:52 ` skaller
2004-09-06 15:10 ` Brian Hurt
2004-09-07 13:26 ` David Brown
2004-09-06 1:14 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-09-06 2:35 ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2004-09-06 9:38 ` skaller
2004-09-06 11:34 ` Jacques Garrigue
2004-09-06 16:28 ` skaller
2004-09-06 16:42 ` Christopher A. Watford [this message]
2004-09-06 16:59 ` Richard Jones
2004-09-07 2:21 ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2004-09-07 6:17 ` skaller
2004-09-07 8:24 ` Benjamin Geer
2004-09-07 13:35 ` David Brown
2004-09-06 7:51 ` Daniel Andor
2004-09-05 20:38 ` Aleksey Nogin
2004-09-05 22:57 ` Olivier Grisel
2004-09-06 0:17 ` Aleksey Nogin
2004-09-06 13:31 ` Olivier Grisel
2004-09-06 19:28 ` [Caml-list] Godi for OMake [Was: Announcing the OMake build system version 0.9.1] Aleksey Nogin
2004-09-06 20:18 ` Olivier Grisel
[not found] ` <41537DAE.1050601@cs.caltech.edu>
2004-09-24 13:50 ` Olivier Grisel
2004-09-24 18:37 ` [Caml-list] OCamlFind support in OMake [Was: Godi for OMake] Aleksey Nogin
2004-09-04 18:01 ` [Caml-list] Announcing the OMake build system version 0.9.1 Yaron Minsky
2004-09-05 1:38 ` Eray Ozkural
2004-09-05 6:12 ` Yamagata Yoriyuki
2004-09-05 12:48 ` Yaron Minsky
2004-09-05 20:39 ` Aleksey Nogin
2004-09-06 12:24 Jason Smith
2004-09-06 15:54 ` Christopher A. Watford
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