Symfony's views on the GPL

Michael Kesper mkesper at schokokeks.org
Thu Sep 24 08:53:48 UTC 2015


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Hi All,

Am 23.09.2015 um 18:06 schrieb Jann Eike Kruse:
> I am not a lawyer, but...as far as I understand, this is rather 
> irrelevant in this case:
> 
> A GPL-licensing of a web development framework has practically no
> legal impact on the freedom of choice of license of the developed
> web application, since the framework is not part of the "object
> code" of the developed web application, but rather a separable and
> independent "system library" in the terms of the GPL text.

I don't think so.
Copyright does not know the concepts of "linking" or "object code" but
only that of "derivative works".

IANAL2

Best regards
Michael
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