[sldev] Media Rendering Plugin Framework Interaction

[Mike Dickson]

You can link DLL's.  But generally a protocol over a socket (or other
transport) isn't enough to trigger a GPL violation.

Mike

On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 16:40 +0000, Tigro Spottystripes wrote:
> does it exempt them even if they're distributed in the same package?
> 
> what about DLLs and such?
> Lawson English escreveu:
> > Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> >   
> >> What license would be required for plugins? Would there be another  
> >> exception carved out for them, or would they have to be GPL?
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> > I thought (corrections welcome) that even the original GPL exempts 
> > separate processes connected via IPC from the GPL requirements.
> >
> > If it didn't, than gridproxy would be in trouble, as would most 
> > operating systems that used GNU applications at some point.
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> > Lawson
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