At 04:58 PM 07/19/2000 -0400, you wrote:

>Check again. GPL is deliberately viral. If you build an application that
>links to a GPL application, you must GPL your application. That's the major

If you link to their sources yes you are right.
In order for the license to apply the work must in some way qualify as a
derivative work. Simply writing an application that talks to a socket or a
driver doesn't qualify as a derivative work.


:wq
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