Only if they dont have direct dependancies. There is precedent
here of sorts although it never went to court. Please review
the Objective C and NeXT incident in detail
> you from providing a mechanism (a script for example) that
> enables the user to do this linkage without requiring him to
> know about what he is doing. And you may even provide such a
The law is actually not as dumb as you imply. Your script for
example is a linking mechanism and you are providing it linked
> Or look at what happened with Be: They may have infected part of
> their system with GPLed code, but since that system is a highly
> modular microkernel, this infection is not really relevant,
> since the infected component is extremely self-contained. On the
> other hand, it's disclosure is of almost no value to the Open
> Source community without disclosure of the noninfected rest of
> the operating system.
Be had a few problems actually, they had to correct their illegal
use of GPL code and sort things out appropriately.
Alan
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