Cisco Cisco AP541N Wireless Access Point Release Notes

I suppose 'libtricks' will take the quest of finding border-cases for the GPL

yet one more (small) step forward. Does every dynamically linked executable

fall under the GPL once someone said `LD_PRELOAD=libtricks.so.0.0 executable'?

That seems to be a rather strange interpretation of the GPL.

The way I (as author of libtricks) see it:

 - you're free to link any program with this library and run it.

 - Only when you give away or sell copies of a program that is

   _set up_ to use this library (or needs it), that program will be

   considered a ``work based on the library'', and thus fall under GPL.

 

 

I've considered using LGPL, but I decided against that because

 - I still don't quite understand it's terms.

 - I actually don't want a program that really needs this

   library to be distributed with any other licence than (L)GPL.

 

joost witteveen.

 

 

For the tekst of the GPL, see /usr/doc/copyright/GPL of any debian system.

 

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