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Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software
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Rui Miguel Seabra |
Subject: |
Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:39:13 +0000 |
On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 20:13 +0500, Wahaj wrote:
> I think following are the different ways one can use a GPLed code in a
> properietary code:
>
> 1) We can create an exe of the GPLed API and call it from a
> properietary application. The exe gets the parameters performs its
> tasks and the calling application can get the output
Yes, this is normal, and it's just one app calling another.
> 2) Dynamically link the GPLed library where we provide the necessary
> dlls of the GPLed library and don't bundle it inside our code. We
> simply use it. Any other application on the machine can also use it.
And how, pray tell, do you use a library without including it? Over and
over many try to create such confusions and deliberate circular
reasonings, but they fail to answer one simple question:
Does the program require the library to work?
Rui
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- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, Stefaan A Eeckels, 2005/03/11
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, Henrik S. Hansen, 2005/03/12
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, David Kastrup, 2005/03/12
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/03/12
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, David Kastrup, 2005/03/12
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/03/12
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, David Kastrup, 2005/03/12
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/03/12
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, David Kastrup, 2005/03/12
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/03/12