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

Terry Hancock hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Mon Dec 17 13:21:55 EST 2007


David wrote:
> 'Referencing' in software describes an active, interacting, continual 
> interface and has not the remotest comparison to bibliographical style 
> referencing.

The information you are talking about is a description of a
communications protocol. What you are claiming is equivalent to claiming
that an XML parser "contains" the W3C XML standard. It does not. It
merely complies with it, by providing the functionality to interact with
XML files.

An API is the same. It describes the way in which a program interacts
with another piece of code.

> This is why Georges work needs to be included - Alice's app literally 
> can't exist without it 

VCR instructions are equally useless without the VCR, but that doesn't
mean the VCR is "included" in the instructions in any remotely
copyright-related sense.

Cheers,
Terry

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Terry Hancock (hancock at AnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com



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