From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8858 invoked by alias); 17 Nov 2001 01:04:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gsl-discuss-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gsl-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 8846 invoked from network); 17 Nov 2001 01:04:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO eis-msg-012.jpl.nasa.gov) (137.78.160.40) by sourceware.cygnus.com with SMTP; 17 Nov 2001 01:04:49 -0000 Received: from jpl.nasa.gov (penguin.jpl.nasa.gov [137.78.73.121]) by eis-msg-012.jpl.nasa.gov (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA07339 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 17:04:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3BF5B765.36282FB7@jpl.nasa.gov> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 03:33:00 -0000 From: Edwin Robert Tisdale Reply-To: E.Robert.Tisdale@jpl.nasa.gov Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gsl-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [smartquant] Re: GPL license violation? [GNU Scientific Library] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2001-q4/txt/msg00029.txt.bz2 Message-ID: <20011114033300.DQuDljU2h5jYNvUrRrX1BBrThV0aX-1W7JiL4_ZOKjI@z> Ferdinando Ametrano wrote: > Once you reimplement GSL, 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 Mark Galassi is hardly an authority and he is certainly not impartial. > Don't you think that > 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. Nonsense! Please cite and quote the passage that supports your assertion that Anton Fokin cannot distribute his software without distributing the GSL without it. Java programmers distribute byte code all the time which may depend upon a GPL'd Java Virtual Machine (JVM) which they do not distribute with their code. You can't force them to release their Java source code under the terms of the GPL just because it runs in a GPL'd JVM.