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The FSF provides an opinion on some of these questions, unfortunately their opinion, that any import or dynamic linking triggers the GPL, a) has never been test
by kingkilr 17y ago
The FSF provides an opinion on some of these questions, unfortunately their opinion, that any import or dynamic linking triggers the GPL, a) has never been tested in court, ever (unlike for static linking), and b) is often not matched by the users of the GPL, such as the famed disagreement between RMS and Linus Torvalds with regard to whether Linux in it's current form complies with the GPL.
- brl 17y agoc) Does not matter. The FSF does not get to write copyright law and decide what is or is not a derivative work.