Claudio Freire
GPL code, AFAIK, IANAL, can depend on closed-source libraries, as long as the dependency is runtime-only. Ie: if you don't link against it, but just use it if installed. It's not the case for samba or any of
The GPL does not talk about linkint and/or runtime, so your assumption is not correct. Closed source libraries are permitted as long as you can redistribute them legally together with the source to allow recompilation. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org