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On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 03:45:13PM +0100, Dr Nicholas J Bailey wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 Aug 2009 09:10:21 Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:33:22AM +0100, Nick Bailey wrote:
> > > Well, calling it your own is out of order, but as long as they
> > > release their source code as required by the GPL, then selling
> > > it is a Good Thing (TM). I hope the LADs agree with me. I would
> > > certainly be delighted if my GPL'd stuff (which isn't directly
> > > related to LAD) got sold. It would mean more GPL'd applications.
> >
> > Two question arise:
> >
> > - Is a program that loads LADSPA plugins (at run time) a 'derived
> > work' ? Note that anyone can create a 'clean' version of
> > ladpsa.h, as some people did with the VST headers.
>
> My understanding is "Yes". If it's linked, it's GPL'd. You can run a
> separate process and communicate through sockets etc, that'd be
> separate. But AFAIK, same memory space => derived work.
i guess your understanding is correct.
in a past thread (feb. 2004) on the piksel list regarding licensing of
video plugins, i've asked the FSF regarding this issue and got this
reply:
"Legally speaking, there's never been a case which discussed
this. FSF believes that dlopen operates the same way as
compile-time linking." Dave Turner GPL Compliance Engineer
ciao
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