Re: Will Open Source be forced to go Proprietary

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Will Open Source be forced to go Proprietary
Date: 2004-01-09 17:21:39
Message-ID: 3FFEE323.2070705@commandprompt.com
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| Sorry, someone had told me patents, but it is actually copyright because

>the GPL uses copyright law. They are saying anything that talks to GPL
>software has to be GPL, and that includes a reverse-engineered client
>library.
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Yes I did see that. Actually from what I know of the GPL, this could very
well be the case.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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