From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Greg Troxel Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Dumb Licensing Questions Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 07:55:41 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1481769661.14047.38.camel@members.fsf.org> <87vaulxaq7.fsf@web.de> <92993b98-1da1-1bcc-ecb4-01deede37183@pelzflorian.de> <20161224080340.GB30358@tuxteam.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1482584188 25921 195.159.176.226 (24 Dec 2016 12:56:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 12:56:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.130016 (Ma Gnus v0.16) Emacs/24.5 (berkeley-unix) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 24 13:56:19 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cKls0-0005Gh-Uq for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2016 13:56:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43303 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cKls5-0006WI-L4 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2016 07:56:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54529) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cKlrd-0006WC-KB for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2016 07:55:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cKlra-0003b4-Hb for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2016 07:55:53 -0500 Original-Received: from linuxpal.mit.edu ([18.62.1.14]:56864) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cKlra-0003al-AW for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2016 07:55:50 -0500 Original-Received: by linuxpal.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 9545) id D26D516078; Sat, 24 Dec 2016 07:55:46 -0500 (EST) OpenPGP: id=098ED60E X-Hashcash: 1:20:161224:guile-user@gnu.org::QHZv3ULK8NsZhoNj:00000000000000000000000000000000000000000002HUu X-Hashcash: 1:20:161224:tomas@tuxteam.de::QHZv3ULK8NsZhoNj:09z/h In-Reply-To: <20161224080340.GB30358@tuxteam.de> (tomas@tuxteam.de's message of "Sat, 24 Dec 2016 09:03:41 +0100") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 18.62.1.14 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:13048 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable writes: > It's clear that there are different standpoints. The linking thing (dynam= ic > or static) hasn't, AFAIK, tested in court. It's quite possible that diffe= rent > courts reach different conclusions (in the same or different places in the > world). It's even possible (gasp!) that the legal interpretations of thin= gs > change over time. =20 Completely agreed. And, to expand, copyright law doesn't talk about linking, it talks about things like "derived works", which leads to "if you do X, is it a derived work". > If I were you, I'd just comply with what the FSF proposes, and that is pr= etty > clear [1]. Any reasons not to comply with that? A very good point. Stepping back, there is a question of what's legal and where the line is. But there's another question of what individuals and the Free Software community think of as good behavior. If someone writes software and makes it available under a Free License, politenss at least demands that those who copy/modify/distribute/use the software respect their wishes about what the license means. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAlhecE0ACgkQH9p66AmO1g6/NACfcTgRaNnWF0oyq/1XbTwNOR8M /tUAn1Cefx/K0wXI0FobnnpR7I4m6418 =gK3U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--