On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 01:58:09PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > However, of course, lib-apt isn't the only thing that is bound > together at run-time with Qt in this program. dpkg is too - the fact > that the interface is program call rather than dynamic linking is an > irrelevant technical detail. No, actually it's not. If the interface is by program call, than the GPL doesn't affect it.
> (This case seems similar to the one > where Next wanted to ship GCC with their own Objective-C frontend, but > not to release the frontend under the GPL. RMS had his laweyrs write > to them and Next changed their mind.) But the frontend actually has to be linked to GCC. A more similar one is the M3 frontend, which evades the GPL restrictions by installing a new frontend (which is GPL), and using program calls to link to that program. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED]