On Friday 18 May 2007, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
>
> Not true. According to GPL, if you link your code to a GPL library
> your code falls under "derivative work" category, and must be released
> under GPL. See the GPL itself and the accompanying FAQ.
>
Correction: it must be released under the GPL or a GPL-compatible licence. So
for example, I can write an MIT X11 program that links against a GPLed
library. This is what Subversion have been doing with Berkeley DB (which has
a somewhat more permissive licence than the GPL).
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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