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Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs
Date: 11 Jul 2004 01:33:57 +0200
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Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:

> Martin Dickopp wrote:
> [...]
> > library.  An example of this case is the C++ standard library, because
> > large parts of it consist of inline functions in header files.
> 
> Use of C++-templates/inlines/macros is the same as static linking of 
> object files (or creating lib archive). Resulting executable (or 
> whatever "container"/"assembly" is a compilation, not a derivative.

You are aware that the legal term "compilation" means something
completely different from the computer term "compilation"?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

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