El Vie 14 Ago 2009 06:39:08 Bruce Allen escribió:
> Hi Eric,
>
> Thanks -- this is very helpful. Before going forward,  I have a
> question.  It sounds as if s...@home is distributing an executable that
> statically links the FFT libs. Is that correct? My understanding of the
> licensing issues is that if the linking to FFT libs is done dynamically
> at run-time on the hosts, rather than statically, then there are no
> GPL/non-GPL compatibility issues.  In other words, a dynamic executable
> of pure-GPL code is allowed to dynamically link at run-time to a
> proprietary non-GPL library.

No, I don't think so. For the GPL, static vs dynamic linking is irrelevant. 
You should have the right to modify, under GPL-compatible terms, all of the 
code that ends up running within the same process, except libraries that come 
with the operating system such as libc (or msvcrt).
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