From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2001-11-08T02:38:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24543] Re: kill rdtool?


On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Mark Hahn wrote:
> Linux is not a library.  If you ship a product that even links to a GPL
> library then that product becomes totally GPL and free.  That is
> unacceptable in the commercial world.

Well, to be precise, in that case, nothing "automatically" changes
license. It is just that the distribution of such packaged software is
illegal. If such software is accidentally (or willfully) released and
someone finds out about it, the responsible party has to either:

	* stop using the GPL'd library
	* change the license on the software
	* stop distribution completely (e.g. turn into a web service)
	* go to court

(in decreased order of likeliness)

but IANAL.

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