On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 16:36:39 +0200 Alessandro Zummo <azummo-lists at towertech.it> wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 10:26:04 -0400 > "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > no, the GPL is all about derivative works and combining code, it makes > > no difference the direction: > > You are probably right, the closest entry in the faq that describes this > situation > seems to be http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins but also relevant are: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FSWithNFLibs http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs so if I am the author of the GPLed software it seems that I'm able to give an exception and link against a non GPL lib. <cite> If you want your program to link against a library not covered by the system library exception, you need to provide permission to do that. </cite> -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it
