Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4165 mails)

[Dylan <dylan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 13 April 2003 22:52, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
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> On April 13, 2003 05:30 pm, Nicholas Parsons wrote:
> > I'm not sure about that.  Was the YaST binary created by linking in
> > glibc?  If so, and the source code called a function like
> > printf(), then it should be part of the GPL.
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> Nice try, glibc is lgpl'ed..

Let me get this straight - if I write a program which is linked against a 
library, my program could be governed by the library's licence? I can see 
this would be the case if static linked, but surely not for a dynamically 
linked library?

Dylan 

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