Dynamic and Static Linking

[David Starner]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 08:53:00PM -0700, David Johnson wrote:
> I'm also curious about what you consider to be the "moral issue". I
> would consider it wrong to use code in a way the author does not want
> you to use it. But I have no other indication of what the author wants
> beyond the text of the GPL.

But that's not true in many cases. For instance, anything RMS wrote. And
even in the cases which it is true, (something I wrote, say) you can often
ask the author. Otherwise, if the author really wanted you to dynamically link 
and really thought about the license (written, spirit, and understood by the 
community), he either would have used LGPL or explicitly said you could (like 
Linus did), IMHO. 

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