Quoting Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ---- > One of the questions with the GPL is about how tightly you may link > GPL code with non-GPL code, for example, when you compile a GPL > program and it uses other code in a software library. Have you done > anything to define how tightly GPL code may be linked with non-GPL > code? Under what circumstances is that permitted and not permitted? > ---- > > Bloby Eben: > > "We have made one clarification, as we see it, of what we believe was > always the rule. We reasserted that code dynamically linked to GPL > code--which the GPL code is intended to require, not merely optionally > incorporate--is part of the source code of the work under the GPL and > must be released." > > and (in another interview) > > "The language or programming paradigm in use doesn't determine the > rules of compliance, nor does whether the GPL'd code has been > modified. The situation is no different than the one where your code > depends on static or dynamic linking of a GPL'd library, say GNU > readline. Your code, in order to operate, must be combined with the > GPL'd code, forming a new combined work, which under GPL section 2 > (b) must be distributed under the terms of the GPL and only the GPL." > > IBM: (Tenth Defense)
Thanks, that makes it clearer. Glenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
