?Two Certificate Managers? (Re: regarding KPF)

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Mon Apr 22 21:36:06 BST 2002


On Monday 22 April 2002 01:09 pm, George Staikos wrote:
>    So what if I open OpenSSL as an input file, read it in, then convert it
> to an executable with f(x) = x, and then execute f(x)?  No different than
> reading in a text file.  Must all of our input files now be GPL too?  If
> so, then the GPL is broken and we should consider abandoning it.

It's not the GPL that defines the boundaries of its reach but copyright law. 
And copyright law does not talk about "linking" or "reading textfiles" but is 
based on concepts like "derived work".

Cheers,
Waldo




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