On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > David Brown <git@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > I don't know. When I read it myself I assumed dynamic linking > would also be OK. libgcc is a dynamic library on most modern systems these days. Yet they routinely execute non-GPL programs. If that text intentionally excluded the dynamic case then every non-GPL applications on such systems would have been breaking the license for a long time. So I don't think anyone could have substance for such a claim. Nicolas -- 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
