From: Ferdinando Ametrano <ferdinando@ametrano.net>
To: E.Robert.Tisdale@jpl.nasa.gov
Cc: gsl-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [smartquant] Re: GPL license violation? [GNU Scientific Library]
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 03:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20011117011452.00a5bea0@mail.ametrano.net> (raw)
Message-ID: <20011114030400.8LI6mLfXq_MXloHAdBYxwsswx_1QNu8LIpgIMi0DDuw@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BF5A5B5.BC7AE2F0@jpl.nasa.gov>
Robert Tisdale wrote:
>You can't copyright an API.
Of course, and once you reimplement GSL then you can say that the software
does not depend on GSL for its functioning. But until you do, if you
distribute software and say "this will only work with GSL because no other
implementation of that API exists" then you have a derivative work.
quoted from the list archives -- original message by Mark Galassi
> Show us where you think your assertion
> has been made clear by the FSF.
Don't you think the message "Can Technical Tricks Circumvent the GPL?" by
RMS is clear enough?
If your software *depends* on GPL software it must be GPL. Technical tricks
to circumvent this dependency are just that: technical tricks.
Ferdinando Ametrano
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-17 0:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-19 13:20 Edwin Robert Tisdale
2001-11-14 2:37 ` Edwin Robert Tisdale
2001-12-19 13:20 ` Ferdinando Ametrano [this message]
2001-11-14 3:04 ` Ferdinando Ametrano
2001-12-19 13:20 ` Dirk Eddelbuettel
2001-11-14 3:21 ` Dirk Eddelbuettel
2001-12-19 13:20 ` Dirk Eddelbuettel
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-19 13:20 Kenneth Geisshirt
2001-12-19 13:20 ` [smartquant] " Anton Fokin
2001-11-08 6:56 ` Anton Fokin
2001-12-19 13:20 Edwin Robert Tisdale
2001-11-13 8:44 ` Edwin Robert Tisdale
2001-12-19 13:20 ` Ferdinando Ametrano
2001-11-14 2:36 ` Ferdinando Ametrano
2001-12-19 13:20 ` Ferdinando Ametrano
2001-12-19 13:20 ` José Miguel Buenaposada
2001-11-13 9:24 ` José Miguel Buenaposada
2001-12-19 13:20 ` José Miguel Buenaposada
[not found] <200111132351.PAA25299@eskimo.com>
2001-12-19 13:20 ` Ferdinando Ametrano
2001-12-19 13:20 ` Anton Fokin
2001-12-19 13:20 ` Brian Gough
2001-12-19 13:20 ` Brian Gough
2001-12-19 13:20 ` [smartquant] " Anton Fokin
2001-11-09 6:07 ` Anton Fokin
2001-12-19 13:20 ` Brian Gough
2001-11-09 9:19 ` Brian Gough
2001-12-19 13:20 ` Anton Fokin
2001-11-10 2:37 ` Anton Fokin
2001-12-19 13:20 Edwin Robert Tisdale
2001-11-14 3:33 ` Edwin Robert Tisdale
2001-12-19 13:20 Edwin Robert Tisdale
2001-11-11 7:20 ` Edwin Robert Tisdale
2001-12-19 13:20 ` Brian Gough
2001-11-12 2:00 ` Brian Gough
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