On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 02:16:00AM +0200, Claus F?rber wrote: > It ultimatly does not make sense if you can choose one of several > libraries (with different licenses) that can be dynamically linked > against a program without recompiling it. > > For example, you distribute a program linked against "libcurl". It works > with "libcurl-nossl", "libcurl-gnutls" -- but also "libcurl-ssl". Is it > linked against a GPL-incompatible library? Careful, this is not an example of a case where the GPL does not apply such restrictions. This is an example of a case where it's so damned snarly that we haven't been able to come up with a good answer yet. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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