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| DATE | 2010-01-04 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Fwd: Re: [mrbrklyn@panix.com: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] MySQL issues]
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Subject: Re: [mrbrklyn-at-panix.com: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] MySQL issues]
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:23:41 -0500
From: Richard Stallman
Reply-To: rms-at-gnu.org
To: Ruben Safir
CC: hangout-at-nylxs.com
Forget about using a GPL'ed code base and expanding it to include in a
larger program. The MYSQL database engine is a stand alone program. If
I write a program that uses MYSQL, through the MYSQL API, such as Perl's
DBI/DBD, or a C interface, I can't release my own program under another
license?
No. Just because two parts of the program communicate through an
interface that doesn't make them separate programs.
Because he is saying that you can only run a non-free program
on Linux because of an exception made in the licensing which alters the
GPL, and that has never been my understand.
If he is saying this, he's mistaken, since that is a different kind of
issue. The kernel and the user program are not parts of a single
larger program.
The user program is linked with GNU libc. If GNU libc were under the
GPL, then only GPL-compatible programs could be linked with it. So if he
is saying this about GNU libc, it is true.
That is why I decided to release GNU libc under the Lesser GPL.
Or if I wrote program in C and use the GCC compiler the
program most be licensed under the GPL as well?
No, that is a different kind of issue.
The compiler is not part of the compiled program.
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