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[Richard Gaskin]

Monte Goulding wrote:
> On 01/08/2013, at 12:31 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
>
>> GPL3 distinguishes "dynamic linking" as not affected, while "static linking" explicitly inherits GPL freedoms.
>
> I thought it was LGPL that made that distinction.

On further review, I believe you're right.  I got hung up on the phrase 
"dynamically linked", having glossed over the rest of this clause from 
Section 1 of GPL3:

    The “Corresponding Source” for a work in object code form means
    all the source code needed to generate, install, and (for an
    executable work) run the object code and to modify the work,
    including scripts to control those activities. However, it does
    not include the work's System Libraries, or general-purpose tools
    or generally available free programs which are used unmodified in
    performing those activities but which are not part of the work.
    For example, Corresponding Source includes interface definition
    files associated with source files for the work, and the source
    code for shared libraries and dynamically linked subprograms
    that the work is specifically designed to require, such as by
    intimate data communication or control flow between those
    subprograms and other parts of the work.

That last sentence seems less about whether it's statically or 
dynamically linked, and more appropriately (it seems to me) about the 
degree to which such files are essential to the core functionality of 
the work.

Thanks for prompting my re-read (so much falls out of one's head after a 
few days in Hawaii <g>).

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
  Software Design and Development for Desktop, Mobile, and Web
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