> > Does your application work without the GPL library? No? So your > > application _needs_ someone else his copyrighted work to > function. So > > you _need_ the work someone else did to make money? And you _demand_ > > that it comes for free and gratis! If you don't like the > GPL license of > > the library, rewrite it, nothing stops you from doing that. > The direction this discussion is going seems to be that if code makes use of a shared library (.so) directly or indiretly which is GPL'ed and that code is to be distributed, it has to be GPL'ed. A quick check of my FC4 box shows 654 .so files in /usr/lib. (not counting soft links.) Is there a list showing which of these are LGPL and which are GPL? I seem to remember that libc.so is LGPL, so that takes care of the "hello world" program.
