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Re: Fwd: Questions regarding licensing issues

Quoting Richard Kenner <kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>:

There are not many lawyers in Greece that deal with open-source licenses. 

The legal issue here has nothing whatsoever to do with open-source
licenses: the exact same issue comes up with proprietary licenses and
that, in fact, is where most of the precedents come from.

The legal issue is in the definition of a "derived work" and what kind
of separation is needed between two programs ("works") to be able to
successfully assert that one is not a derived work of the other.

Yes, this is the major issue here.




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