diff --git a/gpl-lgpl.tex b/gpl-lgpl.tex index 438ae3140862641c6ad05671c2534ff692f15bf2..9c54e64048cf386136788485f587fb76f8354c40 100644 --- a/gpl-lgpl.tex +++ b/gpl-lgpl.tex @@ -1504,7 +1504,7 @@ generally require permission from the copyright holder to grant explicit permission to modify a work in any manner. As discussed in the next chapter, the GPL {\em does} grant such permission, but requires the modified work must also be licensed under the terms of the GPL (and only GPL: -see\S~\label{GPLv2s6} in this tutorial). Determining whether software was +see\S~\ref{GPLv2s6} in this tutorial). Determining whether software was modified is a substantially easier analysis than the derivative work discussions and considerations in this chapter. @@ -1662,6 +1662,12 @@ of the GPL are upheld, goes far above and beyond the permissions that one would get with a typical work not covered by a copyleft license. Thus, to say that this condition is any way unreasonable is simply ludicrous. +The GPL recognizes what is outside its scope. When a programmer's work is +``separate and independent'' from any GPL'd program code with which it could be +combined, then the obligations of copyleft do not extend to the work +separately distributed. Thus, Far from attempting to extend copyleft beyond the +scope of copyright, the licenses explicitly recognize. + Thus, GPL recognizes what is outside its scope. When a programmer's work is ``separate and independent'' from any GPL'd program code with which it could be combined, then copyleft obligations do not extend to the independent work @@ -1669,15 +1675,6 @@ separately distributed. Thus, far from attempting to extend copyleft beyond the scope of copyright, GPL explicitly limits the scope of copyleft to the scope of copyright. -% Comment: The above is only true to the extent that the independent work is -% not also combined as part of a whole based on the GPL'd program, because in -% such case, the licensor needs to "extend" the GPL terms to the whole, -% including the independent work "regardless of who wrote it". -% -% I think the paragraph could thus benefit in clarity by not mentioning the -% "limits the scope of copyleft to the scope of copyright" here (but that may -% have to be with the fact I disagree with this statement in general 😉 - GPL does not, however (as is sometimes suggested) distinguish ``dynamic'' from ``static'' linking of program code. It is occasionally suggested that a subroutine ``dynamically'' linked to GPL'd code is, by virtue of the linking