On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 04:05:37PM -0700, Simon Cooke wrote: > Ummm... actually, no; a GPL'd program can call whatever it likes, without > the libs it uses having to be GPL'd too. It's a purist thing to have them > all as GPL'd libraries, and not explicitly necessary.
Incorrect. If the GPL program calls a library that's not GPL then that library has to be something fairly standard that is usually supplied with the operating system. (Hence all the hoohar over KDE folks recompiling a load of GPL apps to use QT which is non-GPL and only comes with _some_ versions of Linux.) imc
