Re: Corel's apt frontend
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 01:58:09PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> However, of course, lib-apt isn't the only thing that is bound
> together at run-time with Qt in this program. dpkg is too - the fact
> that the interface is program call rather than dynamic linking is an
> irrelevant technical detail.
No, actually it's not. If the interface is by program call, than the
GPL doesn't affect it.
> (This case seems similar to the one
> where Next wanted to ship GCC with their own Objective-C frontend, but
> not to release the frontend under the GPL. RMS had his laweyrs write
> to them and Next changed their mind.)
But the frontend actually has to be linked to GCC. A more similar one
is the M3 frontend, which evades the GPL restrictions by installing
a new frontend (which is GPL), and using program calls to link to that
program.
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David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
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