* Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> On Saturday 23 December 2006 22:35, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > I'm not an license expert
> Then shut up.
> 
> You're wrong, it's true for dynamic linking as well as for 
> static linking.

I don't understand that. Please give some help. 

The situation: 

* Some package A is importing an library with some interface I
* Some other package B provides an library with some interface I

The author of B can decide who may import an certain interface,
just because he wrote an lib providing this interface ?

Where does his legitimation come from ?
Copyright ? -> where's his code here ?
Patents ? -> are they legal ?

If this would be true, then evryone who's writing some proprietary
library can prohibit writing drop-in-replacements. So I wonder why
so many of them exist, obviously legal. 

Where's my mistake ?


cu
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