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Re: [ox-en] Germ of a new form of society or germ of a new form of business?



Niall Douglas <s_fsfeurope2 nedprod.com> writes:

Answer my question: How can using the precise same DLL be stealing
depending on who uses it? It's like saying that a typewriter is being
stolen if someone else types on it!

How does anyone at all lose out by the exact same DLL being used by
closed source code? No modifications were made, no enhancements lost
or proprietised.

It's *identical* to person A losing nothing if person B reads their
book - /therein/ is the unique advantage of information, it's a gain-
always entity. And the GPL prohibits it :(

Library GPL - which became  Lesser GPL in 2.1 - differentiates
explicitly between "work based upon" and "work using". 

  5. A program that contains no derivative of any portion of the
Library, but is designed to work with the Library by being compiled or
linked with it, is called a "work that uses the Library".  Such a
work, in isolation, is not a derivative work of the Library, and
therefore falls outside the scope of this License.

is a relevant section.

You will note that, for any library under the LGPL, you can link to any
DLL of that library without imposing restrictions on your program.


I'm sure there are people using the GPL for libraries - hell, you can
take any LGPL2 code and make it GPL code (clause 3) - but for
"engineering purposes", an LGPL library is about as good as anyone could
hope for.

Or did I miss something again?

cheers, Rich.


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