Re: cdrtools

[Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>]

Daniel Schepler <schepler@math.berkeley.edu> writes:

> According to the GPL, section 0:
>
>   The act of running the Program is not restricted...
>
> And since dynamic linking is done at the time the program is run, this would 
> appear to me to be what applies.  In particular, it appears to me that you 
> could satisfy the GPL and still dynamically link against a non-free library, 
> and distribute both, by invoking the "mere aggregation" clause of section 2.  

This does not mean that anything that happens when you run the program
is not restricted.  For example, the act of running GNU cp and sed is
not restricted, but that cann't possibly mean that the GPL gives you
carte blanche to go ahead and violate the GPL through use of cp and
sed.