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Re: gEDA-user: firmware and the GPL license
On Nov 15, 2007 6:32 PM, Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Doesn't this allow a loophole for people to ship code linked against
> some non GPL proprietary stub which matches the interface of the GPL
> library.. then tell the users to get / replace that stub with the GPL
Why bother distributing anything at all, and just telling the user to
grab the appropriate library as a pre-requisite? :-)
> lib? (Or provide them a shell script which did that?)
This is what most package managers do already. In some cases, like
with ROX-Filer AppDirs, it'll even download and compile the
prerequisite modules for you on the very first run.
> (Trick probably being to come up with such a stub in a non-derivative
> way of course).
I don't think you can license an _interface_ -- only an implementation.
--
Samuel A. Falvo II
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