What's "Linking" under the GPL?

Ed Heil uncorrected at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 5 16:27:27 UTC 2001


Sounds like you know the situation better than I do, Andrew, so I
apologize for muddying the waters.  That's the GPL for you, I guess.

On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 10:29:20AM -0500, Andrew C. Greenberg wrote:
> >And can I just point out again that the FSF itself has recognized that
> >the GPL's "linking" clauses easily become broken outside a
> >"compile-link-deliver" C/Unix style paradigm, and is trying to fix
> >them, but hasn't figured out yet how to generalize things properly?
> 
> Recent drafts circulated by FSF reflect, perhaps, that FSF considers GPL 
> to be broken only to the extent linking isn't clear enough to preclude, 
> say, DLL's.  They are, if anything, more, not less, authoritarian in 
> this regard. [...]

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