Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where do you thing copyright law starts binding ? > > 1 ) pipe > 2 ) shared memory > 3 ) corba > 4 ) remote procedure call > 5 ) dynamic linking > 6 ) dynamic linking, program and lib merged by tar :) > 8 ) static linking
It doesn't matter. To distribute a something which is GPL'd, you must distribute the source code for the entire program. If you don't do that, then you are prohibited from distributing the GPL'd portion of the program. The GPL only lets you copy GPL'd code if you provide the entire source code to the entire program. With the exception of "system libraries", the normal interpretation of "entire program" means that using the exported interface of command line arguments and data streams does not cause the user to be considered part of the "same program". Calling functions in a library does. Making system calls to a kernel does not. It's a case-by-case thing.
