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

[Dan Horák]

Tom "spot" Callaway píše v Čt 26. 03. 2009 v 06:35 -0400:
> On 03/25/2009 06:48 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Any chance I can see the package in question?

The preloaded library is src_vipa.so from s390utils

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458826

https://s390.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=23348


		Dan