Pavel Chromy pisze: > Harald Kipp napsal(a): >>>> AFAIK, adding support for a non-compliant DLL in GPL code is not >>>> circumventing any GPL clause that I know of, neither directly not >>>> indirectly. >>> so is your belief that it is GPL compliant to also distribute >>> GPLed binary that includes support for a closed DLL which is actually >>> not required to use the binary, as there is a free alternative compiled >>> in? (e.g. bitbang parallel port driver or libtfdi support) >> Exactly. > > >> At my current state of knowledge I'd have no problem to distribute such >> a binary, _without_ FTD2XX libraries, of course. > > Thank you, Harald, > this is what I was pointing at in my previous posts: > find the real meaning, the original idea of GPL and defend that, > not some disputable literal interpretation.
First of all - my work towards dynamic library loading on Windows (maybe on Linux too, but I don't have knowledge about that system, so I'd rather pass that one to someone else) is not for doing-whatever with GPL. I just think that it would be a good addition for OpenOCD, as the need for libraries one doesn't use is not quite obvious for "normal user". About posts by Herald and Pavel - I personally agree totally with you, but - as you've already noticed - some maintainers just don't share our point of view, and I think there is no way of convincing them - they just don't want to be convinced. 4\/3!! _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
