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Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs


From: Rui Miguel Seabra
Subject: Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:34:15 +0100

On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 17:08 +0200, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> Martin Dickopp wrote:
> 
> [... "dynamically linked" ...]
> 
> > I think we can agree to disagree here.  This has already been discussed
> > so many times that it's unlikely that either one of us will come up with
> > a new argument.
> 
> Good luck trying to convince a {non-drunken} judge that the use 
> of dlopen() may result in criminal penalties under copyright law 
> (because {under GNU law} it would violate exclusive right of 
> copyright owners to create derivative works). 

dlopen? Good luck not-convincing any judge that:
   #include <hederfile.h>

and

  -lheaderfile

Aren't inclusions of a foreign work into your own.

Rui

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