From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git to libgit2 code relicensing
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:39:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081115183948.GA22714@linode.davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0811150256140.27509@xanadu.home>
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 03:04:29AM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>libgcc is a dynamic library on most modern systems these days. Yet they
>routinely execute non-GPL programs. If that text intentionally excluded
>the dynamic case then every non-GPL applications on such systems would
>have been breaking the license for a long time. So I don't think anyone
>could have substance for such a claim.
Sure they can. Lack of enforcement doesn't dilute copyright like it
does trademark.
It may be that the gcc authors intend for it to be allowed for dynamic
libraries, and therefore wouldn't sue for that usage, but that's not
what they're saying in their license.
What I'm saying is that if I was in a position to review the license
and determine what was permitted, this license with exception does not
appear to allow dynamic linking against the library. It doesn't
explicitly forbid this, but it is ambiguous about it.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-15 18:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-14 20:59 git to libgit2 code relicensing Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-14 21:33 ` Martin Koegler
2008-11-14 21:46 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-11-14 22:57 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-14 22:56 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-15 17:13 ` Martin Koegler
2008-11-14 23:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-11-14 23:46 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-15 4:30 ` David Brown
2008-11-15 5:00 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-15 8:04 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-15 18:39 ` David Brown [this message]
2008-11-15 12:39 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-11-15 13:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-15 19:33 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-11-15 22:12 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-15 18:49 ` David Brown
2008-11-15 16:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-11-15 10:17 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-15 10:28 ` Pau Garcia i Quiles
2008-11-15 11:05 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-15 11:33 ` Pau Garcia i Quiles
2008-11-15 11:52 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-15 18:53 ` David Brown
2008-11-16 1:30 ` Daniel Barkalow
[not found] ` <200811151615.42345.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
2008-11-16 11:50 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-16 21:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-16 21:09 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-11-17 7:24 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-17 15:40 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-17 21:44 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-20 17:41 ` René Scharfe
2008-11-25 15:19 ` Kristian Høgsberg
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