Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 17:16:36 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.mt.sri.com> To: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@Kithrup.COM> Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RMS's view on dynamic linking Message-ID: <199702220016.RAA06292@trout.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199702220011.QAA05847@kithrup.com> References: <199702212325.QAA06245.kithrup.freebsd.hackers@trout.mt.sri.com> <199702220011.QAA05847@kithrup.com>
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>>[ RMS ] view is that linking two programs is not "mere aggregation", regardless or >>whether it's static or dynamic linking. > > That sounds about right. > > That's why the LGPL exists. And why you cannot use GPL'd code in even a > dynamicly-linked library. Except that early Linux commericial software *DID*, and I believe still do since the regex stuff is GPL'd code, not LGPL'd. (It's been awhile since I looked). Nate
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