Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Jan 2003 23:41:19 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: Gauntlet Set NOW! |
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Richard,
My Lawyers instructed me not to talk to anyone about this issue any more. However, I will forward your note to them.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Richard Stallman wrote:
> I'm not sure what your project is designed to do, so I don't have an > opinion about how it stands regarding the GPL. However, I've talked > with our lawyer about one specific issue that you raised: that of > using simple material from header files. > > Someone recently made the claim that including a header file always > makes a derivative work. > > That's not the FSF's view. Our view is that just using structure > definitions, typedefs, enumeration constants, macros with simple > bodies, etc., is NOT enough to make a derivative work. It would take > a substantial amount of code (coming from inline functions or macros > with substantial bodies) to do that. >
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