On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 12:46:11PM -0700, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: > I find this interesting because there is quite a bit of various efforts to > port GPL'd code and programs to the MS Windows environments. Legally, this > would > imply stepping very carefully because who knows what proprietary libraries > might be linked to get the port to work. Am I correct in this statement ?
There are exceptions for things that are included was part of the OS (ie, you can link against common dialog, common control, etc on windoze--but not on Linux where those things wouldn't be system libraries) That's a little unclear I know, but the GPL does spell out a special exception to make that possible. It's kosher to link Motif on Solaris, for example but not Linux since Solaris always includes Motif, but Linux does not.
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