On Saturday 12 August 2006 02:47 am, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > According to the GPL, section 0: > > > > The act of running the Program is not restricted... > > > > And since dynamic linking is done at the time the program is run, this > > would appear to me to be what applies. In particular, it appears to me > > that you could satisfy the GPL and still dynamically link against a > > non-free library, and distribute both, by invoking the "mere aggregation" > > clause of section 2. > > This does not mean that anything that happens when you run the program > is not restricted. For example, the act of running GNU cp and sed is > not restricted, but that cann't possibly mean that the GPL gives you > carte blanche to go ahead and violate the GPL through use of cp and > sed.
I'm afraid I don't see what your point is, here. Of course the GPL allowing me to use a GPL'd httpd to distribute non-free software doesn't automatically mean I would be blameless if I used it to distribute, say, a non-free program foo linked against libmad. The point, I think, is that distributing such a thing as the non-free binary of foo along with a package of a shared libmad is essentially the same as distributing a binary with libmad linked in statically, which is clearly disallowed. Both are just different ways of distributing the combined work of foo + libmad. -- Daniel Schepler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]