Re: Plugins, libraries, licenses and Debian
Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> writes:
>> OK, say I use the X11 license. Now suppose someone installs a closed
>> source plugin. Suppose it also happens that this same user has
>> installed some GPL plugin. Both plugins would be allowed separately,
>> right? When the user runs the program, it will load both plugins.
>> Would this in some magical way make the plugins derived works of each
>> other, thus violating the GPL?
>
> No. But a vendor could get into trouble if they shipped both.
How's that? The GPL allows distribution together with non-GPL works,
as long as the non-GPL things are not derived from anything GPL'd. In
my opinion, placing two shared objects in the same tar file doesn't
make one a derived work of the other. Would it make a difference if
the offending (to rms) plugins were distributed separately?
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Måns Rullgård
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