Can you include GPL software in your software? Yes, but your
obligations depend on how you've included the code. If you
distribute a binary built from GPL code and your own code, all the
source code needed to recreate that
binary must be made available. However, if your software is a
collective work -- an assembly of independent pieces, some yours
and some provided under the GPL -- only the GPL code must be made
available. And at least
according to Linus Torvalds, the creator and chief architect of
Linux, code linked against GPL code -- say, against libavl, the GNU
library for balanced binary trees -- isn't subject to reciprocity,
either.
Det mener jeg helt klart er forkert af Linus, så kan man jo fx. slet
ikke lave
en recompile af source koden og sammen ligne det med den binary man
har.
Kort sagt er min opfattelse at hvis du bruger GPL kode enten ved at
includere
det statisk i en og samme binary, eller du loader det som et modul,
så skal du
give alt din kode til alle dem du giver en binary.
Linus har dog tilladt at man bruger binary modules til Linux kernen,
hvilket
jeg mener at folk har accepteret fordi han har opfundet Linux kernen,
og folk
følger lige som hans spilleregler.
