iLBC license issue

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 03:12:57PM +0100, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> Le mercredi 22 mars 2006 à 16:37 +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane a écrit :

>> But as far as I understand things, the spirit of the GPL is "GPLed
>> code shall not be distributed linked to or meant to be linked to
>> non-free code and no non-free code shall be distributed meant to
>> link with GPLed code". That spirit might not always be legally
>> enforceable, but that's another point.

> My understanding is that when you link, you have to reproduce a part
> of the source headers of the code to which you link ("#include ..."
> for example).

No, as far as I understand things, that's not the main issue. Linking
itself is making a derived work of each of the linked parts, because
you take two different works (an executable and a bunch of .so's or a
bunch of .o's) and combine them. IANAL, and all that.

Some people, however, claim that dynamic linking is "mere usage",
which cannot be restricted. I suppose this is very specific to which
law exactly one is speaking about.

-- 
Lionel