[PD] gpl vs creative commons

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Roman Haefeli wrote:
> 
> ask a lawyer to check in detail, if this is true. however, if licenses
> could cross 'levels of abstractions' in the sense of pd patches being
> affected by the license of pd, 

afaik, licenses do not cross "levels of abstractions".
however, if i have a collection of abstractions published under the GPL, 
then i think i don't cross this magical border.

next comes the question, what is the difference between an abstraction 
and an external non-abstraction object. afaik, GPL does not dissolve 
just because of languages used. (that is: porting of code from one 
language to another is (to my knowledge) not really affected by the GPL 
(e.g.: you can chose the license again) as it usually involves re-coding 
an algorithm rather than re-using pieces of code.; but this is unrelated 
to the language a library is written in)

finally, i am still unsure about the "static linking" clause, and how it 
affects an interpreted language.
i guess, if you have a  patch that depends on a GPL'ed pdlib, and you 
are distributing your patch with this library (e.g. for convencience 
reasons), then you are kind of _statically linking_ and thus your patch 
is automatically GPL'ed too.

but i really don't know

mfga.sd
IOhannes