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I've always been under the impression/opinion (having never spoken to a 
lawyer about this and not being a lawyer), that linking to a GPL library 
- even if you use a public domain .h file - still means you have to be 
GPL (or internal use only) because of the library itself.

I know (or think) it would be a different story to open the fifo/port 
and write to it in your own code.  Probably.  That seems like "software 
patent" territory to an unlearned not-lawyer like me.

-[Unknown]


Walter Bright wrote:
> Steve Teale wrote:
>> I have posted this version 0.00 module on my DCat web page -
>> http://www.britseyeview.com/dcat/ from where you can download it.
>>
>> The generated documentation is also there.
>>
>> The header files I translated to D are GPL. License experts out
>> there, where does that leave the D version? At the moment I have
>> retained the GPL header.
>>
>> I'd welcome comments.
> 
> If you're translating GPL code to D, the result is a derived work and 
> therefore still GPL.
> 
> If it's just a list of declarations, though, I don't believe it is 
> copyrightable, as long as you rewrite them and don't just copy/paste it.
> 
> I think Linus Torvalds got sued over having an errno.h that matched up 
> with Unix's, same names, same values, and he prevailed.