On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 18:32, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > David Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 5. There's an exception. > > > > 6. The exception doesn't apply, because the Program itself (the GPL'd > > library) isn't itself interactive. > > > > 7. Just about every user of GNU readline is violating the GPL. > > The GPL'd library (readline) *is* interactive, so the exception *does* > apply. > > You can't say that Readline-as-distributed is *and* that it isn't. > Pick one. Either way, a program linking against it need not, on that > account, print out a no-warranty notice.
Er, readline is a bad example, of course. Pretend we're talking about some other GPL'd library, like libiberty. So, libiberty-as-you-got-it, the Program, isn't interactive. So, the exception doesn't apply. You end up with an interactive program (the modified program). So, (2)(c) as a whole applies. Notice that (2)(c) is talking about two separate programs. -- -Dave Turner Stalk Me: 617 441 0668 "On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock." -Thomas Jefferson
