[cc-community] GNU-GPL, makefiles, and non-distributed executables

Kyle Williams kylewilliams at openwarriors.org
Mon Dec 17 04:32:26 EST 2007


On Monday 17 December 2007 06:52:56 David wrote:
> >> On a more practical level. If Eve's wants to make use of Georges code
> >> she'll need to reference it within her code. Her works then
> >> immediately includes Georges work, and there's no escaping the
> >> license.
> >
> > "Referencing" a work is NOT "including" it (imagine the consequences if
> > it were!). Lists of bookmarks are a trivial example of why that would be
> > bad as are scientific citations, bibliographies, etc.
>
> Classic 'mixed metaphor'.
>
> 'Referencing' in software describes an active, interacting, continual
> interface and has not the remotest comparison to bibliographical style
> referencing.
>
> Totally unrelated.
>
> This is why Georges work needs to be included - Alice's app literally
> can't exist without it (any more than the existential state can exist
> without the phenomenological), existence is denied for want of an
> environment - books are capable of standing alone, with no more than a
> bibliographical section somewhere in the back, supplying a nodding
> reference.

Thanks David, this is exactly what I was getting at. Perhaps referencing isn't 
the correct term when it comes to software. "Including" would probably be a 
better one. Since Alice's app makes use of Georges work she needs to 
include/import Georges work in her source files.


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