[LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

Gabriel M. Beddingfield gabriel at teuton.org
Tue Aug 4 20:28:47 UTC 2009


On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Sampo Savolainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 10:42 -0500, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
>>
>> Your user is the one doing the linking (via VST)... so they're the ones
>> making the violation.  You have to give special permission to do this:
>>
>> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LinkingOverControlledInterface
>
> As far as I understand it, the action of linking is not a violation.
> Distributing the "linkage" might be a violation depending on the license
> used.

Yes.  I've already retracted my statement.  I was wrong.

Thanks,
Gabriel



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