Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm thinking of licensing a program under the GPL, but I dislike the > FSF's overly restrictive concept that 'dynamic linking is modification'. > > I want my program (and any derivative works) to be allowed to use > *accurately documented and published* interfaces to proprietary > (or any other) libraries or programs.
I have occasionally searched for the same thing myself, without any great success. The LGPL seems about right in spirit, but it explicitly talks about the work being a "library", which makes it hard to apply it the other way round, though you could design your program to make everything look like a library. Recently someone asked my permission to use in an LGPL library a bit of code that I had contributed to a GPL project. It was easy enough to say yes, but perhaps I should have dual-licensed it in the first place as my file was providing library-like functionality and I might not have been contactable later. Also, other people might have made significant contributions to the file using the same licence. Edmund
