copyright - are version(GPL) libs acceptable?

[Kagamin]

Adam D. Ruppe Wrote:

> Thus he's the one doing the combining. Yes, dmd.zip includes the
> GPL'd header file, but it isn't compiled into Phobos except by the
> end user. (then again, does the gpl then viral it's way into dmd.zip
> as a whole? I wouldn't consider it a derivative work but I'm no
> lawyer.)

GPL doesn't define the notion of derivation and leaves its interpretation to the lawyer. Though, non-viral derivations are allowed, e.g. if phobos and libmysql are different packages just put into one archive, it's ok. If it's not ok and Oracle asks you to remove the library, it can be easily fixed by removing libmysql because (and if) phobos doesn't depend on it. So generally there's no problem if they're different packages.