On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 01:49, Andy Green wrote: > This is true, the copyright holder can dual-license how he likes. Is it > true that this guy needs any more licensing than GPL in this case? Not > AIUI. The question is: can the combined result be considered a 'derivative work' under copyright law. If the program won't function without the icons, perhaps it would. If alternatively-licensed icons exist and the user can choose which to use, I would not expect any restrictions to apply - but I'm not a lawyer. > Same goes for if you insert a > proprietary kernel module into Linux - the GPL does not leak through the > module API and into your sources, which can remain private if you choose. Don't count on that. See: http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/12/3/228 and realize that there are good reasons that so few vendors that can't release source bother with a Linux module. It will be interesting to see how this works out with OpenSolaris. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
