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Re:Defold game engine source now available and free to use f... by amelius on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @04:26PM (#23239760)
> If there's linking involved, it gets more complicated, but that's unrelated to this discussion.

I think it is very much related. If my linker cannot link GPLed software because of the license of this software, then this software is restricting my linker. As per the definition of opensource.org, GPLed software is not open source.

Again,

> 9. License Must Not Restrict Other Software

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Re:Defold game engine source now available and free to use f... by jononor on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @01:51AM (#23243670)
Other software (distributed alongside, "mere aggregation") != Software based on a work (derivative).

GPL obligations apply in the latter case, OSI definition talks about the first case.

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Re:Defold game engine source now available and free to use f... by amelius on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @07:33AM (#23245640)
If your view of the definition were true, then the OSI definition would have been more clear about the distinction.

Further, as an example, software running on Linux is clearly different than the Linux kernel. Nobody would say that an application and the OS kernel is the same software. OSI doesn't make a distinction between library calls and kernel calls.

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Re:Defold game engine source now available and free to use f... by rpdillon on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:58PM (#23253796)
OSI specifically lists the GPL as an open source approved license.

https://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-2.0 https://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0

Even AGPL is approved. https://opensource.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0

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