>>>>> Dave Korn writes: Dave> I don't understand: why wouldn't designing it so that they have to be Dave> implemented as DSOs and hence are covered by the Dave> anything-directly-linked-in-is-GPL'd clause do the job? Or is the concern Dave> that people will write trivial marshalling plugins and ship all the data out Dave> across a pipe or socket to some proprietary code and then only release source Dave> for their shim layers?
The concern is the many forms of shim layers that possibly could be written more easily with a plug-in framework. David