Re: Fuzzy machine learning framework v1.2

[Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

On 29.05.12 18:11, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:
> Le Tue, 29 May 2012 11:38:02 +0200, Georg Bauhaus
> <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> a écrit:
>> It is stunning to see programmers who are used to formal,
>> rational thinking, becoming irrational. ;-) ;-)
>>
>> The *combination* of someone else's work and yours is not your own
>> work!
> On the opposite, that's rational and practical. There is an issue with proper
> measure of things here. Think about the extreme case of a single line of GPL
> in a million lines… you see?

The GPL clarifies, to some extent, what constitutes a derivative work.

If your software depends on library L, then regardless of its
size L's license is going to apply. I don't know any license
that defines what size removes the "depends" clause.

(That's like "a little pregnant"; oddly, whenever the GPL
is mentioned together with "viral", then "ratio" vanishes.)

[Summary of how the GPL restricts freeloading snipped.]

Here are two licensing test questions:

Suppose you have written a program P of 30 K own SLOC.
Program P depends on a library L that has 2 K SLOC.
You view the ratio of 2/30 as meaning that L is "tiny stuff".

Will you then be complaining about licensors if you can
get a closed source license for L from them, but at a
price that you find not to be in proportion with 2/30?

Will your complaint have a legal basis?