Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:39:11 +0100, Martin Dickopp > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You can read about the position of the FSF here: >> >> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation >> >> In particular, if the separate GPL'ed executable has no purpose on its >> own, but is created solely to circumvent the license of the library, >> then it is *not* okay. > > The quoted link seems to suggest that using pipes as IPC and execing a > GPLed binary is a satisfactory work around.
Not at all: | By contrast, pipes, sockets and command-line arguments are | communication mechanisms *normally* used between two separate | programs. (Emphasis mine.) That suggests to me that the /mechanism/ of communication provides some hints... | But if the semantics of the communication are intimate enough, | exchanging complex internal data structures, that too could be | a basis to consider the two parts as combined into a larger | program. ...but that the /semantics/ of communication is really decisive. Martin _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list Gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
