On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 03:46:58PM -0800, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

quoted text
> In addition to the permissions in the GNU General Public License,
> the authors give you unlimited permission to link the compiled
> version of this file into combinations with other programs,
> and to distribute those combinations without any restriction
> coming from the use of this file.  (The General Public License
> restrictions do apply in other respects; for example, they cover
> modification of the file, and distribution when not linked into
> a combined executable.)

Is this license intended to allow static linking but forbid dynamic
linking into a non-GPL program?  It depends on how you interpret
"linked into a combined executable", but that sounds like it
intentionally excludes the dynamic case.

David
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