On 10/26/06, Victor
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am curious as to how you derived this conclusion that linking against
GPL shared libraries makes your application GPL as well?
If that's the case, shouldn't TiVo's entire application suite be GPL'ed
since they link against the GPL licensed stdlib?
Or what about the NVidia binary kernel modules? Since they link against
the GPL kernel libraries to create a binary, shouldn't that binary be
GPL?
The GNU C library is licensed under the LGPL (Lesser / Library GNU
Public License), not the GPL. The LGPL does allow linking by
non-GPL/LGPL programs.
I'm not sure how the nVidia kernel modules work license-wise, though.
There's still debate as to whether binary modules should be allowed.
- Jacob
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