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2007.07.16 11:39 "Re: [ANNOUNCE]: Libtiff 4.0.0alpha released", by Andrey Kiselev
On 7/16/07, Andy Cave <andy.cave@hamillroad.com> wrote: > So what happens if someone builds a standalone piece of s/w (tiffjbigdecomp) > that reads (compressed) data from stdin and writes (uncompressed) data to > stdout. They can then write s/w that execs a sub-process, redirecting > stdin/stdout to be a file on disk and a pipe, and then just read the > decompressed data from the pipe. Does that infringe GPL? I think not (as > otherwise no commercial s/w could run on Linux), in which case I think the > claim that dynamic loading / linking does (infringe GPL) is not necessarily > solid, as the difference between that and dynamic linking to a library is > pretty thin. Andy, I am pretty sure that this question can be answered in court only. But GPL FAQ discuss this case a bit: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#NFUseGPLPlugins Best regards, Andrey -- Andrey V. Kiselev ICQ# 26871517