On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 11:35 AM Ralf Corsepius said: >> >> On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 10:25 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: >> > On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 10:14, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> > > > >> > > > Please show us *where* in the GPL/LGPL are the words "static linking" >> > > > and "Dynamic linking" used? >> > > Nowhere, but it's how the FSF interprets the LGPL/GPL and how courts >> > > have interpreted it, when sentencing SW vendors trying to use GPL'ed SW >> > > in closed source projects. >> > >> > Court decision please? I wasn't aware that any GPL case had been >> > settled in court. >> Here we go: http://www.jbb.de/html/?page=news&id=32 There's nothing in that case dealing with static vs. dynamic linking. The defendant in the case was in trouble for distributing object code without making available the source code to netfilter/iptables and for failing to properly attribute that code. It has nothing whatsoever, as far as I can see, to do with his own code. -- Henry
