I've found a package that contains a a library intended to be shimmed into the system with LD_PRELOAD. The library itself is under the CPL license. Are there any troubling issues surrounding dynamic linking of a CPL-licensed library in this manner?
My take on this is that we couldn't link CPL code with, say, GPL code together and distribute the resulting binary, but when the end user performs that linking by setting LD_PRELOAD and running a binary, they aren't distributing the result so there's no license violation. It's all pretty much beyond me, though.
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On 03/25/2009 06:48 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
I've found a package that contains a a library intended to be shimmed into the system with LD_PRELOAD. The library itself is under the CPL license. Are there any troubling issues surrounding dynamic linking of a CPL-licensed library in this manner?
My take on this is that we couldn't link CPL code with, say, GPL code together and distribute the resulting binary, but when the end user performs that linking by setting LD_PRELOAD and running a binary, they aren't distributing the result so there's no license violation. It's all pretty much beyond me, though.
Any chance I can see the package in question?
~spot
Tom "spot" Callaway píše v Čt 26. 03. 2009 v 06:35 -0400:
On 03/25/2009 06:48 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
I've found a package that contains a a library intended to be shimmed into the system with LD_PRELOAD. The library itself is under the CPL license. Are there any troubling issues surrounding dynamic linking of a CPL-licensed library in this manner?
My take on this is that we couldn't link CPL code with, say, GPL code together and distribute the resulting binary, but when the end user performs that linking by setting LD_PRELOAD and running a binary, they aren't distributing the result so there's no license violation. It's all pretty much beyond me, though.
Any chance I can see the package in question?
The preloaded library is src_vipa.so from s390utils
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458826
https://s390.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=23348
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