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Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs


From: Lee Hollaar
Subject: Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 14:01:55 +0000 (UTC)

In article <x5pt728yja.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>In the case of dynamically linking a program, it is not the program
>that does the linking.  Instead ld-linux.so links the program,
>entering the dynamic library symbol information into it, _before_
>chaining to the linked program.

As so, how does that change the copyright, legal, or other intellectual
property status of anything?

Two of the three groups in this discussion are concerned only with
legal questions, and this thread started out discussing when something
is a derivative work or otherwise protected under copyright law.

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