Ah, nice info!
opens up a whole new range of possibilities...
[note to myself: - (1) plant a tree! (2) build a house! (3) wrap
blender's magic fluid control! :) ]
thanx again for the effort, halfdan/alan
Philipp
Alan Jones schrieb:
I think it was also to do with dynamic vs static linking. Because it's
distributed in an unlinked form the user is linking it at runtime.
This means the linking is part of use, not distribution - at least
that's the impression further research gave.
Cheers,
Alan.
On 5/30/07, Halfdan Ingvarsson <hingvars(at)softimage.com> wrote:
This is based on confusion around the GPL "linking clause" which
applies to works that "derive" from GPL-ed software (ie. the
"derived" software cannot work without linking to a GPL-ed software).
The linking clause does not apply in this case since XSI doesn't
require the plugin in order to run. So XSI is not a derivative work
of the plugin in that sense.
This is an important distinction, because otherwise you wouldn't be
able to run opensource apps on windows, since they require windows in
order to work.
The LGPL removes this requirement and is used for most, if not all,
system libraries on Linux, since closed source applications require
them in order to run on Linux.
Alan's original impression was that it went both ways, which is not
the case
(I'm only using Linux here since it represents a mixed GPL/LGPL
environment that closed source applications run on).
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