From: | Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net> |
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To: | PgSQL General ML <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: About GPL and proprietary software |
Date: | 2003-08-31 20:34:18 |
Message-ID: | 1062362058.7342.51.camel@haggis |
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On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 14:57, Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 02:26:14PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > IANAL, but according to my understanding
> > (1) proprietary s/w that dynamically links to "GPL" shared libraries
> > has not broken the GPL.
>
> Sure? My understanding is that it does break GPL. That's why there's an
> LGPL.
Well, there's this:
http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LinkingWithGPL
and this:
http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LinkingOverControlledInterface
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2000-April/010043.html
Linus thinks that dynamic linking is ok, RMS doesn't, but gives
an example boilerplate that says how dynamic linking can be ok
w/ the GPL. It's definitely a grey area.
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