[Fedora-legal-list] License compatibility and preloaded libraries

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

I've found a package that contains a a library intended to be shimmed
into the system with LD_PRELOAD.  The library itself is under the CPL
license.  Are there any troubling issues surrounding dynamic linking of a
CPL-licensed library in this manner?

My take on this is that we couldn't link CPL code with, say, GPL code
together and distribute the resulting binary, but when the end user
performs that linking by setting LD_PRELOAD and running a binary, they
aren't distributing the result so there's no license violation.  It's
all pretty much beyond me, though.

 - J<