* [gentoo-dev] Re: Watch out for license changes to GPL-3.
[not found] <4696b2bd.kcGnkUFoCMKDeiXx%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
@ 2007-07-13 5:04 99% ` Harald van Dijk
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From: Harald van Dijk @ 2007-07-13 5:04 UTC (permalink / raw
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> >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.
>
> Not true:
>
> cdrecord and "all-1" programs in cdrtrools are 100% CDDL.
>
> mkisofs is a GPL project that links to non-GPL libraries.
> This is something that is no problem with the GPLv2 as long as the
> libraries are not derived from or written for GPL code.
>
> As the libraries mkisofs links with are older than mkisofs or at
> least written independently and usage neutral, there is no problem
> even with binaray redistribution of mkisofs.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs
Neither the FSF nor you hold the copyright to mkisofs, but still, I'll
take the FSF's own interpretation over yours. If others believe you're
right, that's their choice.
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