Re: Corel's apt frontend

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

David Starner writes ("Re: Corel's apt frontend"):
> On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 01:58:09PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > However, of course, lib-apt isn't the only thing that is bound
> > together at run-time with Qt in this program.  dpkg is too - the fact
> > that the interface is program call rather than dynamic linking is an
> > irrelevant technical detail.
>
> No, actually it's not. If the interface is by program call, than the
> GPL doesn't affect it. 

I don't think this is true, but I'm not here to discuss it with you.
I want to discuss it politely with Corel (and possibly RMS).

> But the frontend actually has to be linked to GCC. A more similar one
> is the M3 frontend, which evades the GPL restrictions by installing
> a new frontend (which is GPL), and using program calls to link to that
> program.

Does RMS know about this ?  I suspect that RMS would take a similar
view in this case.

Ian.