Is Magnant a derived work ?

[Ben]

Francois Beerten a écrit :
> Jonathan Wilson wrote:
>
>> > Now is Magnant a derived work ?  Does it violate the GPL ?
>> The graphics certainly are not a derived work in that they are not 
>> directly linked into the game or contained in with the script files 
>> (they are input files to the program and are not part of the program 
>> itself)
>
> Right, the graphics are not linked in the stratagus engine. The 
> scripts on the other hand have detailed references (file name, sizes, 
> frame positions and so on) to the graphics. One could say that the 
> scripts are "linked" to the scripts.
>
>>
>> The other software items, if they are stand-alone processes with 
>> seperate exe files are not a derived work either.
>>
>> At least that is my understanding of the GPL.
>>
> The other software items are seperate executables. But does the GPL 
> stop at the border of the executable ?
>
> Francois Beerten.
>
So, what is the solution? I read some papers on GPL and all links 
(static or dynamical) done with the GPL would creat a derived work. In 
this case, the software wouls have to be under gpl too...