GPL and closed source

TW zupftom at googlemail.com
Fri Jun 3 07:25:50 UTC 2011


2011/6/3 John Cowan <cowan at mercury.ccil.org>:
> Dale scripsit:
>
>
>> 3.If you GPL code uses dynamic/runtime linking rather than static,then
>> it is ok
>
> That's disputed.  The FSF says no, and most open source people say no.
>

Wouldn't that mean that according to the FSF you may not write GPL
software for Windows as your GPL code would access the non-GPL Windows
API?  Then how can the FSF advertise GPL software for Windows[1]?

Thomas W.


[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html



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