Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: > [...] >> The source code is not linked with the libraries. The combination of >> the (compiled) source code and whatever library it uses occurs in the >> system running the program. >> >> As it is extremely difficult to distribute a running program, this >> clause would pertain to linked programs that contain both a >> transformation of the source code (the object) and all or part of the >> libraries (where we could argue ad nauseam whether the instructions > > Ha.
[...] > <quote> > > One of the questions with the GPL is about how tightly you may link > GPL code with non-GPL code, for example, when you compile a GPL program > and it uses other code in a software library. Have you done anything > to define how tightly GPL code may be linked with non-GPL code? Under > what circumstances is that permitted and not permitted? > > Moglen: We have made one clarification, as we see it, of what we > believe was always the rule. We reasserted that code dynamically linked > to GPL code--which the GPL code is intended to require, not merely > optionally incorporate--is part of the source code of the work under > the GPL and must be released. > > </quote> > > So much about "the GPL rejects any automatic aggregation of software > copyrights" the FSF been telling to the Judge in court of law. To > quote day5done, Linking is not aggregation. Of course you knew that. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
