Josh Triplett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Walter Landry wrote: > > Suppose I have a program Foo which uses either GNU readline. I can > > compile Foo against GNU readline (but not link it), and distribute the > > result. I can also distribute GNU readline separately. But I can not > > distribute foo and GNU readline together. How is this different from > > your case? > > Hold on a second. You seem to be arguing against the established > interpretation of the GPL here: at least according to the FSF, you may > not distribute the GPL-incompatible Foo compiled against GNU readline, > linked or not.
That really depends on whether the parts of GNU readline that end up incorporated into program Foo are large enough to be copyrightable. Almost certainly, having just a reference to a function signature such as char * complete(char *fragment); would not be enough. For the purposes of this discussion, let us assume that the header is suitably small. Regards, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
