Re: Somewhat different GPL Question

2000-10-27 Thread Alan Cox
> If you're making interprocess calls to call the GPL code, > I suspect you won't have to make your code GPL. > > OTOH, if you /link/ against a GPL shared library, you will > have to GPL the source of your program (that is, you'll have > to give it to the people who receive the binary from you).

Re: Somewhat different GPL Question

2000-10-27 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Christopher Friesen wrote: > If I use some GPL'd code and make calls from my software to the > GPL'd code, do I need to make *my* code available? Or would I > only have to make available any changes to the GPL'd code? > > Section 2.b of the GPL seems to indicate that I need

Somewhat different GPL Question

2000-10-27 Thread Christopher Friesen
If I use some GPL'd code and make calls from my software to the GPL'd code, do I need to make *my* code available? Or would I only have to make available any changes to the GPL'd code? Section 2.b of the GPL seems to indicate that I need to make the source for my entire executable available if i