[please CC all replies to me, I'm not on this list] Hi, I've posted an ITP[1] for libtrash, a library that uses LD_PRELOAD to intercept application calls to unlink(), rename(), open(), fopen(), freopen() and other system calls which may delete/truncate files, and moves them to a "trash can" rather than deleting them. My question is this: libtrash is licensed under the GPL, and the LD_PRELOAD is likely to allow non-GPL'd (including non-free) binary code to use it. The binary code is not actually "linked" with libtrash, however.
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=137108&repeatmerged=yes Branden Robinson seems to think that the distribution of this is OK, but suggested that I bring this discussion to the -legal forum. Any ideas on this? Cheers, Timshel -- Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for Debian email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux developer, see http://people.debian.org/~timshel/ For GnuPG public key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
