Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] GPL license question
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From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:28:43 +0200
Fulko.Hew@xxxxxxxxx wrote:


wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 07/11/2007 01:16:26 PM:


Hi,

Actually I disagree ;)

 From reading below the question is "is it an independent and separate
work"? The GNU FAQ says its not:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins


Unfortunately, the FAQ is a FAQ and not the license.


True, as is your interpretation of it.
As you can see, this is someones 

That someone being the FSF, not just anybody.


interpretation of a vague agreement,
just as mine is/was.  Even the FAQ uses non-firm phrases like
"we believe", and 'borderline case', then there will be questions.
Aren't there ever in licenses? The real world is so much trickier than protocol specs, and we all know how tough they can be. 


And thats why those 'interpretable' statements were removed from GPL 3.


Still there's a lot of debate about it. :(