Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: James Tait Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: GPL Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 19:42:01 +0100 Organization: Wyrd Dreams - Internet Realities Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3617C179.16A998B9@wyrddreams.demon.co.uk> References: <3613857a.4432702@news.playstation.co.uk> <361437E6.4BFA5A5D@wyrddreams.demon.co.uk> <36164BC4.674A74F4@hotmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: wyrddreams.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.27 i586) OK, who brought the lawyer? *8OP Yes, Philippe-Andre, you're right. When I posted that I didn't have a copy of the GPL handy so I couldn't check it. I did say I might be talking crap. *8O) I can't help wondering why Sony would bother to distribute the GPL on the CD though if it didn't apply. For pure informational value? Perhaps parts of the library are derivative works of glibc or something - is that distributed under GPL or GLPL? Perhaps someone from Sony could clarify the situation on this - exactly what is the status of our programs with respect to the GNU GPL? Not that it will make a difference to many of us, cos we're community-minded anyway, but it's just nice to know. Philippe-Andre Lorin wrote: > > I think you're wrong. Here's a related part of the GPL : > > "The act of running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the > Program is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the > Program (independent of having been made by running the Program). Whether > that is true depends on what the Program does." > > Games you write for Net Yaroze do not constitute a work based on gcc, to my > mind.