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What is the point you are trying to make here? You can't use a proprietary library without a license because you can't distribute it. Whether you can have code
by poizan42 3y ago
What is the point you are trying to make here? You can't use a proprietary library without a license because you can't distribute it. Whether you can have code linking to the proprietary library without distributing the proprietary library has been largely irrelevant to the makers of those libraries since you wouldn't be allowed to use that functionality without either the distributor or the user paying for a license anyways.
- belorn 3y agoDistribution is not required for copyright infringement. The creation of a derivative work is a separate right in copyright. Copyright law has however implemented exceptions in the form of interoperability. The distinction between creating a derivative work, or having two works communicating with each other, is a relative fuzzy one.