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...nize that. It's > whole point is the restriction against linking with anything with an > incompatible license which obviously prevents a lot of best-of-breed > combinations. You should read the GPL and get help to understand it. The GPL does not forbid this linking. In contrary, the GPOL allows any GPLd program to be linked against any library under and license. If this was not thecase, you could not legally distribute binaries from GPLd programs. > > My code is fully legal and there is absolutely no license problem with it. > > Umm, no. Larry Wall clearly understo...

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > > > You should read the GPL and get help to understand it. The GPL does not forbid > this linking. In contrary, the GPOL allows any GPLd program to be linked > against any library under and license. If this was not thecase, you could not > legally distribute binaries from GPLd programs. You can't distribute GPLd programs unless 'the work as a whole' is covered by the GPL. There can't be a dis...

Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Joerg Schilling > <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > > > > > I would be interested to understand why Heirloom seems to so well known and my > > portability attempts seem to be widely unknown. > > > > Not sure why it matters with a standalone

...<lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Joerg Schilling > <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > > > > > You should read the GPL and get help to understand it. The GPL does not forbid > > this linking. In contrary, the GPOL allows any GPLd program to be linked > > against any library under and license. If this was not thecase, you could not > > legally distribute binaries from GPLd programs. > > You can't distribute GPLd programs unless 'the work as a whole' is > covered by the GPL....