On 03/30/2013 01:02 AM, Alexander Kobel wrote: > On the other hand, user C /should/ be allowed to distribute source code under > whatever license he wants to /as long as he doesn't ship the GPL libraries > with > it./ It's useless without them, but anybody who wants to run or compile the > code is free to download the necessary GPL'ed stuff.
If I write a computer program which uses functions from a GPL'd library, it doesn't matter whether I distribute an executable or just source code, and it doesn't matter whether I distribute the source code alongside the GPL'd libraries or as an individual file. It's a derivative work under the GPL and must be licensed accordingly when distributed. See: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfInterpreterIsGPL Perhaps you are thinking of e.g. the case with UNIX shell scripts, where e.g. I can write a script that calls GNU sed without having to license my script under the GPL. But this is because there's no dynamic linking that takes place when I do so -- I'm starting an independent process and receiving its output. See e.g.: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
