Hi, On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:08:45AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> No need to care about license stuff: fold that into a separate > process, and voilà :) It's not that simple. What constitutes a derived work cannot be decided based on process boundaries alone. After all, processes (i.e. adress spaces) are just a technical detail. What really matters is whether the components interact "at arms length" (as the GPL FAQ calls it) -- it would be ridiculous to treat each Hurd server as an independent work. OTOH, just because programs communicate using Hurd interfaces, doesn't mean they are automatically derived works. Where exactly is the cutoff line? Hard to say -- it's often a matter of discretion. And as few actual court rulings exist on such matters, it's hard to guess how things really stand if someone decides to sue... Note that with Hurd servers, we have another problem though: they generally link the Hurd server libraries, which thus are clearly bound by the Hurd license conditions. I sent an inquiry about the implications to licens...@gnu.org half a year ago, but never got any reply :-( -antrik-
