somebody wrote:
> "Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
> news:4983bdac@news.povray.org...
>> somebody wrote:
>>> Don't assume. You want to release code mixed with GPL code,
> 
>> No, I don't! That's exactly what the article is talking about!
> 
> Doesn't matter, software that functions together is a block.

There's no such thing as "block" in copyright law.  Clearly, all the movies 
showing in the same movie theatre are functioning together "in a block", so 
of course they all have to come from the same movie studio, right?

> Would GM allow a car dealership to put in, say, Toyota parts into
> their cars and sell it as a whole?

They don't enforce that with copyrights.

> If a piece of software depends on another to function as a
> package, demanding that the licenses be compatible makes sense to me.

Sure. But you can't enforce that with copyrights.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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