On Dec 11, 8:57am, William Lindley wrote:
> > If the library is GPL, then you are incorporating GPL code into yours
>
> But with runtime (dynamic) linking, you're not including the GPL code.
> You're just asking for a library by that name. It could be anybody's
> library... so GPL shouldn't enter the picture with dynamic linking, right?
I think you're right about this, so long as you do not distribute a
GPL'd library with a program having an incompatible license which
uses that library. Also, the program in question should not be built
using header files from a GPL'd library. (Though LGPL'd ones are
okay.)
>From a practical standpoint, this effectively means that the program
in question must be developed and built using a non-GPL'd
implementation of the library. Once it's distributed, if the end user
chooses to use a GPL'd version of the library, then that's his concern,
not the distributer's.
For more on this matter, see:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html
Kevin
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