8 Dec
2009
8 Dec
'09
7:08 p.m.
Tom Tobin
1) Is there any scenario where Y can be distributed under a non-GPL license (e.g., the BSD)?
2) If so, what would Y's author need to do (or *not* do)?
3) If Y must be released under the GPL under the above scenario, and someone subsequently wrote library Z, an API compatible replacement for X, and released it under the BSD license, would Y's author now be permitted to release Y under the BSD?
I wonder: if *using* an API makes a work derived, wouldn't replicating it be equally problematic? (The question stands anyhow, since 'someone' might be the author of the original library, who is clearly not limited by his licensing...) -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants