Table of Contents
Advertisement
These requirements apply to the modified work as a
whole. If
identifiable sections of that work are not derived from
the Library,
and can be reasonably considered independent and
separate works in
themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not
apply to those
sections when you distribute them as separate
works. But when you
distribute the same sections as part of a whole which
is a work based
on the Library, the distribution of the whole must be
on the terms of
this License, whose permissions for other licensees
extend to the
entire whole, and thus to each and every part
regardless of who wrote
it.
Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights
or contest
your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the
intent is to
exercise the right to control the distribution of
derivative or
collective works based on the Library.
In addition, mere aggregation of another work not
based on the Library
with the Library (or with a work based on the Library)
on a volume of
a storage or distribution medium does not bring the
other work under
the scope of this License.
3. You may opt to apply the terms of the ordinary
GNU General Public
License instead of this License to a given copy of the
Library. To do
this, you must alter all the notices that refer to this
License, so
that they refer to the ordinary GNU General Public
License, version 2,
instead of to this License. (If a newer version than
version 2 of the
ordinary GNU General Public License has appeared,
then you can specify
that version instead if you wish.) Do not make any
other change in
these notices.
Once this change is made in a given copy, it is
irreversible for
that copy, so the ordinary GNU General Public
License applies to all
subsequent copies and derivative works made from
that copy.
This option is useful when you wish to copy part of
the code of
the Library into a program that is not a library.
4. You may copy and distribute the Library (or a
portion or
derivative of it, under Section 2) in object code or
executable form
under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided
that you accompany
it with the complete corresponding machine-
readable source code, which
must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and
2 above on a
medium customarily used for software interchange.
If distribution of object code is made by offering
access to copy
from a designated place, then offering equivalent
access to copy the
source code from the same place satisfies the
requirement to
distribute the source code, even though third parties
are not
compelled to copy the source along with the object
code.
5. A program that contains no derivative of any
portion of the
Library, but is designed to work with the Library by
being compiled or
linked with it, is called a "work that uses the Library".
Such a
work, in isolation, is not a derivative work of the
Library, and
therefore falls outside the scope of this License.
However, linking a "work that uses the Library" with
the Library
creates an executable that is a derivative of the
Library (because it
contains portions of the Library), rather than a "work
that uses the
library". The executable is therefore covered by this
License.
Section 6 states terms for distribution of such
executables.
When a "work that uses the Library" uses material
from a header file
that is part of the Library, the object code for the work
may be a
derivative work of the Library even though the source
code is not.
Whether this is true is especially significant if the work
can be
linked without the Library, or if the work is itself a
library. The
threshold for this to be true is not precisely defined
by law.
57
Advertisement
Table of Contents
