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From: "Andrey Kiselev" <andrey.kiselev@gmail.com>
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On 7/16/07, Andy Cave <andy.cave@hamillroad.com> wrote:
> So what happens if someone builds a standalone piece of s/w (tiffjbigdecomp)
> that reads (compressed) data from stdin and writes (uncompressed) data to
> stdout. They can then write s/w that execs a sub-process, redirecting
> stdin/stdout to be a file on disk and a pipe, and then just read the
> decompressed data from the pipe. Does that infringe GPL? I think not (as
> otherwise no commercial s/w could run on Linux), in which case I think the
> claim that dynamic loading / linking does (infringe GPL) is not necessarily
> solid, as the difference between that and dynamic linking to a library is
> pretty thin.

Andy,

I am pretty sure that this question can be answered in court only. But
GPL FAQ discuss this case a bit:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#NFUseGPLPlugins

Best regards,
Andrey

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