Re: OT: Ethics, Morale and Intellectual Property - open discussion

"Robert Giesecke" wrote

but also a system, that uses his library.

I agree that, interpreted that way, such a license would tend to make a
product unusable, so I doubt it was what was meant.

Suppose for example that we had an embedded database product. I'd think it
completely legitimate to offer a specific program (for example a recipe
program) architected in such a way that the database access was actually
abstracted through a dll, but not legimate to sell a general purpose
database dll, based on the vendor's code, as a competing product.

bobD


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