Messages in this thread | | | From | Richard Stallman <> | Subject | Re: Gauntlet Set NOW! | Date | Thu, 09 Jan 2003 02:28:47 -0500 |
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I'm not sure what your project is designed to do, so I don't have an opinion about how it stands regarding the GPL. However, I've talked with our lawyer about one specific issue that you raised: that of using simple material from header files.
Someone recently made the claim that including a header file always makes a derivative work.
That's not the FSF's view. Our view is that just using structure definitions, typedefs, enumeration constants, macros with simple bodies, etc., is NOT enough to make a derivative work. It would take a substantial amount of code (coming from inline functions or macros with substantial bodies) to do that.
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