GPL
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Oct 10 04:19:57 UTC 2007
Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 13:39 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
>> But you do not merely "use" libraries, you include them in the
>> program.
>
> "Included" in the sense of compiling that code into your own, or simply
> having their library file added in with your collection of files?
The interesting case is where source is distributed that, when compiled
links to both GPL'd and non-GPL'd libraries. The FSF would like us to
believe that such source cannot legally be distributed unless there is
an equivalent non-GPL'd library that could be used as a substitute for
the GPL'd one. Or the equivalent case where binaries are distributed
that do the same run time linking with shared libraries.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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