CDDL+GPL and stuff

[Arnoud Engelfriet]

Konstantin Svist wrote:
> What I meant by a separate project, though - I was thinking of a 
> source-only distribution. If the end users are allowed to link anything 
> they want, as long as they don't distribute it, and distributing source 
> code only is pretty much covered as "free speech" - or at least GPL 
> doesn't impose such a restriction on it... or am I wrong?

The question is, is your separate project really separate or actually
still a derivative work? If it is the latter, it does not matter how
you organize or publish it. You need permission to create a
derivative work.

I don't know where you get the "distributing source is free speech"
from. It's irrelevant though. You're not publishing your own speech
in the form of source code, you're distributing a derivative work
of someone else's code. And you have no right to others' speech.

Arnoud

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