John Cowan wrote: [...] > Native executables aren't simply collections, however; linkers > break up and redistribute the individual object files into > different regions of the executable.
Do you seriously believe that such details/"linking analysis" [whether this or that linker redistributes the individual object files into different regions, etc.] matters? C'mon, RMS is right: "it makes no difference whether linking is static or dynamic." Neither constitutes creation of derivative work, I think/hope. I may be wrong, of course. regards, alexander. -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
