[argyllcms] Re: Autotools version of 1.0.0-patched

  • From: Martin Ling <martin-argyll@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:07:49 +0100

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 08:34:40AM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
> 
> The technical differences between system calls and library calls are
> surely irrelevant here, i.e. the same should apply to libraries.

...though having written this, it dawns on me that the FSF and others
believe otherwise; i.e. a program that uses a library is a derived work
of that library - hence the LGPL.

How use of a library implies derivation when use of the operating system
does not, is something I'd still like to know.


Martin

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