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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 23:41:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Richard,

My Lawyers instructed me not to talk to anyone about this issue any more.
However, I will forward your note to them.

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group


On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Richard Stallman wrote:

> I'm not sure what your project is designed to do, so I don't have an
> opinion about how it stands regarding the GPL.  However, I've talked
> with our lawyer about one specific issue that you raised: that of
> using simple material from header files.
> 
> Someone recently made the claim that including a header file always
> makes a derivative work.
> 
> That's not the FSF's view.  Our view is that just using structure
> definitions, typedefs, enumeration constants, macros with simple
> bodies, etc., is NOT enough to make a derivative work.  It would take
> a substantial amount of code (coming from inline functions or macros
> with substantial bodies) to do that.
> 

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