On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Ian McKellar wrote: > On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 08:19:41PM -0600, Andrew Kieschnick wrote: > > > > Gimp plug-ins are not linked into the calling program (they are run as > > separate processes), so you can call them from any program you like > > without violating the GPL. > > Perhaps, but that is open to interpretation. Corel is currently talking with > the author of dpkg which is called as a program (through exec) from a non-GPL > program. He sees this as a GPL violation. I don't see how the GPL can be interpreted that way. What section is this believed to be violating? later, Andrew Kieschnick
