Re: Open Office file formats (Oasis-open) and gnumeric

[Jon Kåre Hellan <hellan acm org>]

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 16:13, Russell McOrmond wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Jody Goldberg wrote:
>
> > All of the plugins included in the primary source tree are GPLed.
>
>   Is there any possibility of getting the authors to re-license under
> LGPL?  Otherwise this code cannot be re-used, just used as an example for
> duplicate code.

The plugins are dynamically linked into the Gnumeric executable. If this
makes the plugins a derived work of Gnumeric, it is only legal to
distribute GPL plugins.

The position of the FSF is that dynamic linking results in a derived
work. Although this has never been tested in a court of law, nobody in
the Free Software or Open Source communities wants to contest this
interpretation.

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Jon Kåre Hellan <hellan acm org>