From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:00:39 GMT Subject: Re: git to libgit2 code relicensing Message-ID: <20081115050039.GC2932@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <20081115043051.GA21608@linode.davidb.org> David Brown wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 03:46:58PM -0800, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > >> In addition to the permissions in the GNU General Public License, >> the authors give you unlimited permission to link the compiled >> version of this file into combinations with other programs, >> and to distribute those combinations without any restriction >> coming from the use of this file. (The General Public License >> restrictions do apply in other respects; for example, they cover >> modification of the file, and distribution when not linked into >> a combined executable.) > > Is this license intended to allow static linking but forbid dynamic > linking into a non-GPL program? It depends on how you interpret > "linked into a combined executable", but that sounds like it > intentionally excludes the dynamic case. I don't know. When I read it myself I assumed dynamic linking would also be OK. This is why I prefer programs; I don't read legalese so I can't quite figure out what the statement means. At least with C its a little less vague. ;-) -- Shawn.