Hmmmm... Yes. You are right. Too many damned situations to keep track of. GPL applications can link to non-free libraries... BUT only in the case of "system" libraries.
So... if fparser were distributed with operating systems as a binary blob then a GPL application can use it. However, a binary blob of fparser cannot be distributed with a GPL application without the source to that binary blob. What a mess. That brings me to another topic... we have other binary blobs in libMesh... like tecio.a... Don't we have the same problems there? At any rate the GPL is madness. This kind of crap really turns me off of the whole "free software" movement... Derek Sent from my iPhone On Oct 23, 2012, at 7:43 PM, Roy Stogner <royst...@ices.utexas.edu> wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Cody Permann wrote: > >> I vote that we stop the license war. > > Okay; this will be my last post. It's hardly a "war", but there's > nothing else I was going to say that isn't covered by that FAQ; anyone > confused can just go read the whole thing. > > I thought that last entry was pretty clear, though. Maybe something > shorter would have been more persuasive? > > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MoneyGuzzlerInc > --- > Roy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list Libmesh-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel
