>>>>> Dave Korn writes:
Dave> I don't understand: why wouldn't designing it so that they have to be
Dave> implemented as DSOs and hence are covered by the
Dave> anything-directly-linked-in-is-GPL'd clause do the job? Or is the concern
Dave> that people will write trivial marshalling plugins and ship all the data
out
Dave> across a pipe or socket to some proprietary code and then only release
source
Dave> for their shim layers?
The concern is the many forms of shim layers that possibly could
be written more easily with a plug-in framework.
David