26 Jan
2011
26 Jan
'11
2:23 a.m.
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 08:11 +0100, Ketil Malde wrote:
I'm not an IP lawyer either (thank God), but merely using a published interface does not make it a derivative work. So IMO there's no problem with a GPL library making use of a BSD library, nor vice versa - just like I can write a BSD program and run it on (GPL'ed) Linux and libc.
As mentioned elsewhere, this is true for the individual bits of source code, but not for the combined eventual program. That will be subject to the terms of the GPL, if there is any GPLed bits included (and that includes a GPLed library informing a linker about symbol resolution and relocation stuff). -- Chris Smith