Re: Plugins, libraries, licenses and Debian

[Cameron Patrick <cameron@patrick.wattle.id.au>]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 03:46:18PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:

| And exec as the Magic Copyright Barrier(tm) is silly.

Well, sort of.  I can see the perverted logic behind it: on most
operating systems, a program and its libraries share a common address
space.  Once you fork/exec something, the GPL'ed programme and the other
programme are in separate address spaces and can't directly touch each
other's code and data any more.

Cameron.