On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: > >I was under the impression that the FSF thinks that if it's illegal to > >link a program with GPL software and distribute that, it's also illegal if > >you > >just distribute the other program and have the user do the link. > HOW? I hope the FSF doesn't think this, because imho it is so sloppy > legal thinking as to be incompetent!
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/guile/1999-02/msg00151.html http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-java.html http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLPluginsInNF http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs Also http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/bangalore-rms-transcript : Eben Moglen: As when, for example, people tried to draw a line between static linking and dynamic linking under GPL version two, and we had to keep telling people that whatever the boundary of the work is under copyright law, it doesn't depend upon whether resolution occurs at link time or run time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org