[PD] a little ot: creative commons

Thomas Grill gr at grrrr.org
Thu Jun 15 23:48:09 CEST 2006



Marc Lavallée schrieb:
> Le 15 Juin 2006 09:40, Frank Barknecht a écrit :
>   
>> There seems to be no consensus about wether a patch, that uses
>> externals released under GPL, should have to be GPL, too. Personally I
>> don't believe it has to be GPL, but I think, IOhannes once argued that
>> it has to be GPL as well. (Which would mean, that all patches using
>> [expr] would need to be GPL, btw.)
>>     
>
> A patch is not a derived work, so it doesn't have to be GPL.
>   
I would be quite surprised if this is true. To my mind it's exactly the 
same as using a code library with an API, which is where LGPL comes in.

greetings,
Thomas

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