Re: People who develop with MySQL and/or other GPL based code
Re: People who develop with MySQL and/or other GPL based code
- Subject: Re: People who develop with MySQL and/or other GPL based code
- From: Eugene Lee <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 13:45:46 -0600
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:24:24AM -0800, Mark J. Lilback wrote:
:
: I personally can't see a court ruling that a program that
: opens a GPL'd library at runtime and calls functions in it
: is a derivative work of that library.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#PortProgramToGL
Most system libraries either use the GNU Lesser GPL, or use the
GNU GPL plus an exception permitting linking the library with
anything. These libraries can be used in non-free programs; but
in the case of the Lesser GPL, it does have some requirements
you must follow.
: The Unix/BSD rulings
: said that copying/using an API isn't a violation, and a
: shared library's purpose is to be shared. I don't see how
: someone can arbitrarily restrict who it is shared with once
: on a system.
--
Eugene Lee
eugene at anime dot net
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