Jan Wildeboer jan.wildeboer@gmx.de schrieb/wrote:
The FAQ unfortunatly has a legal opinion that is probably not compatible with most copyright laws, especially German Urheberrecht:
If a plugin is not based on code of yours but rather uses an interface to "communicate" with it - be it fork/exec, function calls or other methods - it is not a work dereived from yours, so your copyright simply does not apply.
Even an include() statement does not make the plug-in in the form it is _distributed_ in a dereived work.
Further, it might be a violation of antitrust laws if GNU software becomes more prominent.
It is probably not a very good idea to test this aspect of the GPL in court.
Claus (No I'm not yet a lawyer but a law student specialising in IP law)