On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 03:46:58PM -0800, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
In addition to the permissions in the GNU General Public License, the authors give you unlimited permission to link the compiled version of this file into combinations with other programs, and to distribute those combinations without any restriction coming from the use of this file. (The General Public License restrictions do apply in other respects; for example, they cover modification of the file, and distribution when not linked into a combined executable.)
Is this license intended to allow static linking but forbid dynamic linking into a non-GPL program? It depends on how you interpret "linked into a combined executable", but that sounds like it intentionally excludes the dynamic case. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
