From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7684e927a2475d0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.hanau.net!noris.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 15:21:25 +0200 From: Georg Bauhaus Organization: elsewhere User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Macintosh/20060530) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: can one build commercial applications with latest gnat and other licenses related questions... References: <449660f0$0$11077$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> <1150717184.087134.177850@h76g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1151050924.969806.284410@c74g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <449d3c15$0$4517$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Jun 2006 15:20:21 MEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 35e9f57d.newsread2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=S9HY5d5h9YMUo1RUcdhQmEQ5U85hF6f;DjW\KbG]kaMH[NGU2GAcMGJ?d76f1NDnTD=0F65HQV8iF8:=eDa<[F5E X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4975 Date: 2006-06-24T15:20:21+02:00 List-Id: Michael Bode wrote: > I would like to hear what the FSF thinks 'using a library' is as > opposed to 'derive work from a library'. "derivative work" and "use" are legal terms, best explained by legal professionals. The discussions of whether or not which constitutes what have been lengthy, and IIRC usually suffered from mixing everyday notions of "use", "derive", etc., with their relevant meaning in licensing contracts. -- Georg