What is Copyleft?
David Johnson
david at usermode.org
Fri Feb 23 04:56:29 UTC 2001
On Thursday 22 February 2001 02:16 pm, John Cowan wrote:
> No, DLLs are in the same address space as the main program. They are
> ordinary code that instead of being mapped at link time, is mapped at
> the beginning of run time. Calls to a routine in a DLL are essentially
> ordinary subroutine calls indirected through a table of pointers.
"address space" is an arbitrary criteria (as is the similar "process space").
I have serious doubts that it's even legally valid. A better criteria is
needed. It is not the author doing the mapping of addresses, it is the OS.
All the author is doing is using an API.
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David Johnson
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