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2007.07.15 04:41 "Re: [ANNOUNCE]: Libtiff 4.0.0alpha released", by Graeme Gill
Ron wrote:
> Yes, I've had similar (though less authoritative) advice regarding
> mixing GPL software with openssl, which otherwise needs an explicit
> exception to the GPL for individual works which intend to permit that.
> This does seem logical, since if you are using symbols from the library
> then you are linking to it. That they may be provided statically, or
> through the ELF dynamic linker, or by explicit dynamic loading from the
> application (etc.) doesn't really change that much.
I don't believe that the nature of the link between the GPL
code and other code that goes to make up a package of
functionality has anything directly to do with it. It's
the fact that a distributed package ("work") depends on
GPL code for some of its functionality that makes the
distributed package a derived work. If the different pieces
do directly link then this is more obviously established,
but the GPL code could be in a separate executable and
still the package may be a derived work.
Graeme Gill.