Dynamic and Static Linking

[Martin Konold]

On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, John Cowan wrote:

> I think that someone licensing code under the GPL intends the spirit
> of the GPL, which is surely to prevent the use of GPLed parts
> in unfree programs.  The words of the GPL are just the means by which
> this purpose is achieved.

IIRC the GPL does not govern use but distribution. IMHO linking/use in a
distributed component way is still an unresolved GPL problem.

Yours,
-- martin

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