[JDEV] GPL Licensing and Clients

[Deirdre Saoirse]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Michael Pence wrote:

> My question regards GPL licensing and the use of, specifically, a
> GPL'ed COM object by Jabber clients.  Does this GPL license require
> that all users of the COM object also use a GPL license?

Assuming we're talking GPL and not LGPL:

The rule is that if it's statically linked, what it is statically linked
to needs to be GPLed. If it's dynamically linked, there is no such
requirement.

See the footnote of the GPL (near the very bottom):
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

And the text of the LGPL and its philosophy:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html

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