What's "Linking" under the GPL?

Jarvis, Robert P. (Contingent) Jarvisb at timken.com
Fri Nov 2 14:05:26 UTC 2001


> -----Original Message-----
> From: goran.hultgren at bluefish.se [mailto:goran.hultgren at bluefish.se]
> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 3:32 AM
>
> <snip!>
> I am sorry if I came on too "hard", it wasn't on purpose. I 
> have reread your original post and realized I might have
> reacted too strongly. I apologize for that.

That's OK - no hard feelings here.

> What I react to is more the association of GPL with communism (in it's
> negative forms).

It may well be that the open-source software community has certain
similarities to Marx's utopian vision, albeit unintentionally.  "From each
according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" seems to be
somewhat descriptive of the open-source movement.

Bob Jarvis
Compuware @ Timken




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