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Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs |
Date: |
11 Jul 2004 11:50:49 +0200 |
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cstacy@news.dtpq.com (Christopher C. Stacy) writes:
> >>>>> On 11 Jul 2004 01:28:24 +0200, David Kastrup ("David") writes:
>
> David> Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:
> >> 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).
>
> David> I thought that copyright cases were dealt with under the
> David> civil code? But there is a fine line between calling dlopen
> David> and dynamically linking a program: in the latter case,
> David> symbol addresses are resolved and scattered through the
> David> caller. The calling code is adapted to the called library
> David> and can't call a different one after linking.
>
> I think you may have misspoken in the above paragraph, because
> "dlopen" _is_ dynamic linking.
man dlopen. No symbols are resolved by dlopen in the caller.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, (continued)
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- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/07/10
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Rui Miguel Seabra, 2004/07/10
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- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/07/10
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Rui Miguel Seabra, 2004/07/10
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Rui Miguel Seabra, 2004/07/10
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, David Kastrup, 2004/07/10
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, David Kastrup, 2004/07/10
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Isaac, 2004/07/10
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, telford, 2004/07/18
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Christopher C. Stacy, 2004/07/11
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Lee Hollaar, 2004/07/11
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, David Kastrup, 2004/07/11
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Lee Hollaar, 2004/07/11
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Rui Miguel Seabra, 2004/07/11
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, David Kastrup, 2004/07/11
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Lee Hollaar, 2004/07/11
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/07/12
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, David Kastrup, 2004/07/12
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/07/12
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, telford, 2004/07/18