On 3/10/2015 10:41 pm, Santiago Vila wrote: > I searched for "GPL and interpreted languages" and found this: > > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#IfInterpreterIsGPL > > The license of the interpreter itself may be anything and it's not > important. > > But the last two paragraphs are of interest here. It says that a > program using several modules (perl, java) is dynamically linked to > them and it is a derived work of all of them.
ah, good find! > So maybe you are right, but I'd love someone to clarify the difference > between this and the kernel case. the kernel case is no different, however there is an explicit exception in the license for "system libraries". "If the GPL-incompatible libraries you want to use meet the criteria for a system library, then you don't have to do anything special to use them; the requirement to distribute source code for the whole program does not include those libraries, even if you distribute a linked executable containing them." cheers jonathon -- JASP - A Fresh Way to Do Statistics http://jasp-stats.org/ -- How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all. -- Sir Henry Wotton
