Re: Sorry to ask this, license question

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch> wrote:
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> Am 07.01.2013 um 19:45 schrieb Patrick <patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org>:
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>>> "
>>> And this is the rabbit hole that the OP was afraid we'd go down. :-) "
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>>
>> Indeed
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>> I don't want to cause trouble. It seems that it is certainly not clear to dynamically link to GPL code from GPL incompatible licenses so i won't do it.
>
> that is clear.  you link to GPL code, statically or dnyamically, and our program becomes subject to the GPL.
>

On the other hand, if there are GPL and non-GPL libraries that provide
the same interface, the program is only GPL when it's using (or being
distributed with) the GPL library, and it can be non-GPL for just the
source code with no libraries or when using the non-GPL library. (Or
it can still be GPL, if the code's author wants it to be GPL and the
non-GPL library's license is compatible.)

/s/ Adam