Thread: Getting Around the GPL
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Rob1n is offline Rob1n
2010-04-13 , 15:26
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#24
Originally Posted by volt View Post
The law will not go into evaluations like "the original library is useless". It's all about principles and technicalities, not quality and featurerichness.
Indeed, but if the original library is useless then the intent is obviously to make use of the GPL library. If the original library is functional (but suboptimal) then the intent is far more difficult to prove.