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

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 21 2001 - 14:17:45 EST


On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Timur Tabi wrote:

> In my opinion, this whole thing would just go away (including some of
> Microsoft's anti-GPL rants), if the FSF officially declared that under the GPL,
> #including a GPL header file does NOT force your code to be also GPL.

The problem being, there is no such thing as header file from C point of view.
I can do

cat >my_file.c <<EOF
#include "/home/you/your_file.c"
EOF

and be done with that. And yes, it's abusing cpp.

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