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I suppose 'libtricks' will take the quest of finding border-cases for the GPL
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yet one more (small) step forward. Does every dynamically linked executable
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fall under the GPL once someone said `LD_PRELOAD=libtricks.so.0.0 executable'?
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That seems to be a rather strange interpretation of the GPL.
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The way I (as author of libtricks) see it:
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- you're free to link any program with this library and run it.
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- Only when you give away or sell copies of a program that is
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_set up_ to use this library (or needs it), that program will be
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considered a ``work based on the library'', and thus fall under GPL.
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I've considered using LGPL, but I decided against that because
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- I still don't quite understand it's terms.
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- I actually don't want a program that really needs this
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library to be distributed with any other licence than (L)GPL.
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joost witteveen.
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For the tekst of the GPL, see /usr/doc/copyright/GPL of any debian system.
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