From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I95gF-0001fa-Ad for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:54:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6CKpYqx028105; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:51:34 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6CKknfR020005 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:46:50 GMT Received: from gentoo.org (cp237988-a.mill1.nb.home.nl [84.29.252.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF33365640 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:46:48 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:46:53 +0200 From: Harald van =?utf-8?Q?D=C4=B3k?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Watch out for license changes to GPL-3. Message-ID: <20070712204653.GA29060@boostbox.mill1.nb.home.nl> References: <4690C4B8.4000407@gentoo.org> <1184264665.8615.4.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <20070712193146.694917f6@snowflake> <200707121500.14681.vapier@gentoo.org> <20070712200736.2a79eaff@snowflake> <1184267678.26227.9.camel@localhost> <1184270329.8615.13.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <20070712211215.66b62994@snowflake> <46968C45.4060400@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46968C45.4060400@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l6CKpYsu028105 X-Archives-Salt: ba581f2d-087c-4c19-9316-3a350f464079 X-Archives-Hash: 829b3f6c6054825aa6db017abfc4533f On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:16:46PM +0300, Petteri R=E4ty wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti: > >=20 > > As I understand it, merely using an eclass doesn't force GPL-2 on an > > ebuild because there's no linkage involved. > >=20 >=20 > This argument would make it possible to write apps using GPL-2 python > libraries in !GPL-2 licenses Correct, it does, just like it permits C applications with GPL-incompatible licenses to link with GPL libraries, so long as this linking is done by the end user and the application is not distributed in its linked form. See for example the NVidia kernel module, or for a somewhat different but similar example, cdrtools. --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list