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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:44:51 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Patrick Rotsaert wrote:

> No problem that my dll will fall under the GPL.
> Just out of curiosity, does this also apply for applications that use my
> DLL?

As far as I understand it, "linking" as defined by the GPL is when you
incorporate code into the running process space.  If you keep them
seperated into different processes (e.g. one program spawns/execs
another) that is not considered linking.  So dynamic linking = yes,
spawning a seperate process and communicating via IPC = no.  But then
again <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#YANALATEYHSMBSI>.

Brian

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