On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 03:07:15PM -0800, Walter Landry wrote: > Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> wrote: > > I'm not presenting a coherent enough argument to convince debian-legal > > I'm right; I'm too lazy to do so and it would involve significant > > research on my part. Instead I'm trying to convince interested > > parties that the fact that there exists a library that is GPL > > compatible and that has the exact same interface may interact with the > > anti-linking argument. > If there is a GPL compatible library that we can run and build the > program with, then the resulting object file contains no GPL code. If > we distribute it to a user, and that user decides, at runtime, to link > to some other library, then Debian is in the clear (as is the user, > unless the user distributes the aggregate). And if it's linked at runtime with the GPL-incompatible library not because the user has made a choice, but rather because that's where our package dependencies lead, is Debian still in the clear? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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