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Re: [smartquant] Re: GPL license violation? [GNU Scientific Library]
- From: Ferdinando Ametrano <ferdinando at ametrano dot net>
- To: E dot Robert dot Tisdale at jpl dot nasa dot gov
- Cc: gsl-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 01:37:37 +0100
- Subject: Re: [smartquant] Re: GPL license violation? [GNU Scientific Library]
Robert Tisdale wrote:
>You can't copyright an API.
Of course, and once you reimplement GSL then you can say that the software
does not depend on GSL for its functioning. But until you do, if you
distribute software and say "this will only work with GSL because no other
implementation of that API exists" then you have a derivative work.
quoted from the list archives -- original message by Mark Galassi
> Show us where you think your assertion
> has been made clear by the FSF.
Don't you think the message "Can Technical Tricks Circumvent the GPL?" by
RMS is clear enough?
If your software *depends* on GPL software it must be GPL. Technical tricks
to circumvent this dependency are just that: technical tricks.
Ferdinando Ametrano