On 11/26/2012 07:54 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 07:40:10PM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
I am not familiar with gstreamer's internals, but AFAIIK, these
plugins aren't linked, but "dlopen'ed".
Otherwise these "plugins" would not be "plugins" ;)
The difference is an implementation detail, and so depending on it for
legal purposes is a stretch.
Well, dlopen'ed modules/plugins aren't directly linked, i.e. there is
only an indirect dependency. AFAICT (IANAL), this is what makes the
legal key-difference. However, it likely would require to have a
precedent at court to have this topic clarified, because I am also aware
there are people who do not share my view ;)
However, as far as *we're* concerned, I
don't think there's a problem - everything we ship would be fine with
GPLv3, and any additional combinations occur at the user's end. Upstream
may care due to distributions with different policies, but I don't know
that that's a discussion we need to have here.
Agreed.
Ralf
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