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They don't seem to claim there is a distinction on the mechanics there? Rather their distinction seems to be "are these part of the same overall program, or two
by dataflow 5y ago
They don't seem to claim there is a distinction on the mechanics there? Rather their distinction seems to be "are these part of the same overall program, or two separate ones", however you measure that: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLPlugins https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLPlugins
- nightpool 5y agoBy claiming that using dlopen to load some code makes your program a derivative work of the library it's using, but shelling out to it doesn't, they're implicitly making a claim as to the distinction of the mechanics.