De Togni Giacomo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alex,it's a good occasion for you and for us to read some GPL Faq.You can see
> here:
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
> So,I selected three questions very interesting,here:
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation
> here:
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLInProprietarySystem
> and here:
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs
> This is a position of GPL'ed software.
Unfortunately, the offocial GPL FAQ is wrong as it includes explanations
based on the term "linking".
As the GPL is rather based on the term "building a derived work",
several use cases, that are claimed not to be OK by the FSF GPL FAQ,
are really possible.
Because the GPL does not mention the term "linking", there is no
difference between static and dynamic linking. For the same reason,
the pure act of "using" a non-GPL library from GPL code does not create
a derived work from the GPL code and is allowed.
Jörg
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