Re: Controversy over dynamic linking -- how to end the panic

[Mike Harrold]

> To be honest, I disagree that #include'ing a GPL header file should force your
> app to be GPL as well.  That may be how the license reads, but I think it's a
> very bad idea.  I could write 1 million lines of original code, but if someone
> told me that but simply adding #include <stdio.h> my code is now a derivative of
> the stdio.h, I'd tell him to go screw himself.

Not to mention utterly unenforceable. Consider:

1) Oracle Corp. builds their database for Linux on a Linux system.
2) Said system comes with standard header files, which happen in this case to
   be GPL'd header files.
3) Oracle Corp.'s database becomes GPL.

There's not a court in the civilised world that would uphold the GPL in that
scenario.

Regards,

/Mike