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Why would the GPL be viral, while EUPL isn't, according to the EUPL authors?
So, according to the FSF, any work that links to a GPL licensed work is considered a derivative work, and thus also needs to be covered by the GPL.
This is the FSF's opinion of how copyright law ...
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What are the arguments for considering dynamic links to constitute derivative works?
When it comes to GPLv3, it is explicitly defined in the license text, as seen in the bolded part of the quoted text below.
From Section 0 of GPLv3:
“The Program” refers to any copyrightable work ...
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Why would the GPL be viral, while EUPL isn't, according to the EUPL authors?
If we take the example of a software library, then we have three distinct entities:
(A) The software library itself.
(B) A larger program that is dynamically or statically linked to the software ...
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What are the arguments for considering dynamic links to constitute derivative works?
The act of loading a program which dynamically links a library would generally produce an generally-ephemeral work derived from that library. If one were to take a memory snapshoot of the running ...
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Selling GPL derived source code
You can charge any amount of money for the binary code. If you ask for a million dollars, and I pay a million dollars, totally legal.
You can charge reasonable cost for the source code. For example, ...
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learning from GPL infects code
When you copy a copyrighted work, you need a license that allows you to do that. When you create a derived work from a copyrighted work, then you need a license that allows you to do that. That is ...
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Why would the GPL be viral, while EUPL isn't, according to the EUPL authors?
The text of the GPL is quite explicit that it only applies to works that copyright law considers to be copies of the original work:
To "modify" a work means to copy from or adapt all or ...
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Combining GPL with non-commercial license
This is an addon to the other answers. GPL does not require you to share your work if the code is not used outside of your organization. Be aware of what constitutes "distribution". I plan ...
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Why would the GPL be viral, while EUPL isn't, according to the EUPL authors?
You are not really missing anything.
Open-source licenses are rooted in copyright law in that they give others certain rights that copyright law reserves to the copyright holder (typically, the author)...
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Potential Syscall Note Loophole?
To my way of thinking, much the same thing that stops you from copying the whole of the kernel source into an MIT program, and claiming it's all now MIT.
Sure, the place you're copying it into has a ...
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