All, I have an application that needs to authenticate users to the Linux system. We are having a discussion about whether using Linux-PAM would require our proprietary application to be released as GPL. A couple of us believe that the Linux-PAM is GPL, not LGPL, and thus any application that would link to it, either dynamically or statically, would constitute a derived work. If you could provide clarification about the licensing of the Linux-PAM, I would be grateful. The following questions need to be addressed: 1) Does statically linking to the GPL code Linux-PAM constitute a derived work. 2) If we use Linux-PAM dynamically linked, though this is a minuscule portion of our code -- not the main objective of the code, does our code then become a derived work? 3) If we use Linux-PAM, but we only do dlopen() to connect to the dynamic Linux-PAM library does our code then become a derived work? Also note: I understand that you are not a lawyer, but I'm asking for your opinion as the developers of the Linux-PAM. If you have the time, or an opinion on the matter, please chime in. Thanks, Andy _______________________________________________ Pam-list mailing list Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
