A few comments

Casey Harkins caseyharkins at gmail.com
Fri Oct 19 11:07:11 EDT 2007


Eion Robb wrote:
> Here's my train of logic:
> Someone said I was using Skype as a library, and since that is not free,
> its a violation of the GPL.  If that were the case, why would the GPL FAQ
> talk about linking with non-free libraries as a possible (though not
> desirable) thing?
> 

Go back and read that FAQ again. It asks if you can write FREE SOFTWARE 
that uses non-free libraries, not if you can write GPL'ed software. At 
the end of the answer to that FAQ it says, "Note that there may also be 
legal issues with combining certain non-free libraries with GPL-covered 
Free Software."

-casey




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