15 Jun
2006
15 Jun
'06
11:48 p.m.
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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