Re: cdrtools
On 8/14/06, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
And to some extent, the FSF must claim that it's not possible to
escape the GPL with a second implementation (so that programs linking
to readline must still be GPLed, even though you could use libedit as
a mostly-transparent replacement, for instance).
Well, if you ship a binary linked against readline, it's not totally
unthinkable that the source of the program should be available under a
GPL-compatable licence.
On the other hand, if you ship the binary not linked against readline,
or linked against editline instead, there's no reason that the source
has to be distributed under a GPL-compatable licence just because the
program _could_ be compiled against readline.
If the source is not under a GPL-compatable licence, doesn't that just
mean the resulting binary is not distributable at all? The GPL only
give rules about redistribution, it doesn't change the licence of
anything.
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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