license.html : Assert that dynamic linking implies a derivative work.

Erik de Castro Lopo committed 21 years ago

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94	any further licensing fees for libsamplerate.	94	any further licensing fees for libsamplerate.
95	</P>	95	</P>
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		97	<P>
		98	2005-08-09 : There is a certain amount of
		99	<A HREF="http://www.wordiq.com/definition/GNU_General_Public_License#GPL-related_disputes">
		100	debate</A>
		101	about whether non-GPL software can dynamically link to GPL libraries.
		102	I side with the FSF and assert that an executable dynamically linked
		103	to libsamplerate is a derivative work of libsamplerate and is
		104	therefore subject to the GNU GPL.
		105	</P>
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97	<P>	107	<P>
98	For more information, please see the	108	For more information, please see the
99	<A HREF="http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/procedure.html">	109	<A HREF="http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/procedure.html">