Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [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.
There is no problem here. The non-free codes haven't included any of the code from libtrash (e.g. from a header), so they can't be infringing libtrash's copyright. There might be some problems if libtrash were distributed with the non-free stuff as a complete program, but that is not what is happening here. If the non-free stuff included headers from libtrash, then the non-free stuff couldn't be distributed unless it were GPL'd. Regards, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
