RE: [cobalt-users] Cobalt License (Was: Cobalt Racks Question)

[Dom Latter <DLatter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Cobalt is, I think, saying that they built the GUI, which *interfaces 
> with*, but is not based on, the Linux/GPL code. The entire 
> system is in fact subject to the GPL *except for* the Cobalt GUI, which 
> is the primary value-added by Cobalt.

Doesn't wash with me:

"These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable 
sections of that work are not derived from the Program, 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 Program, 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."

The GUI stuff is distributed "as part of a whole which is a work based 
on the Program".... no?

> Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Likewise.  Now we all know there are Colberts lurking here - perhaps 
one of them will be kind enough to clarify.