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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Relicensing another author's work
From:       Michael Howell <mhowell123 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-06-15 4:02:09
Message-ID: 200906142102.14745.mhowell123 () gmail ! com
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On Saturday 13 June 2009 15:40:21 David Johnson wrote:
> There are some opinions that using public interfaces does not constitute
> derivation. The compiler uses the header to create references, but the
> compiler does not output a copy, alteration, translation or transformation
> of the header. There may be some problems if the headers has significant
> templates and complex macros, but by and large inclusion of a header is not
> problematic.
This is not a widely considered opinion. See the GPLed libreadline trap.

KIO probably is not the same, since the involved application contains no part 
of libsmb. KIO-slaved run out-of-process, even.

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