On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 11:13:41AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > Let's consider a program, released under a MIT/X11 license and linked > > with OpenSSL. Some GPL'ed plugins (which are dlopen'ed at run time) are > > distributed with the program. > > Is distribution of this package a GPL violation? > If the plug-in is written from scratch (so it doesn't contain 3rd > party GPLed code) and it's specifically written as a plug-in to the > program, I'd suppose that the author implicitly gives permission to > dynamically link it to the program (and other plug-ins). Or, it may be the author's intent to only permit source distribution. Assuming that the author doesn't understand the consequences of his chosen license is not a sound legal strategy. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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