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From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.mt.sri.com>
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>>[ RMS ] view is that linking two programs is not "mere aggregation",
regardless or >>whether it's static or dynamic linking.
> 
> That sounds about right.
> 
> That's why the LGPL exists.  And why you cannot use GPL'd code in even a
> dynamicly-linked library.

Except that early Linux commericial software *DID*, and I believe still
do since the regex stuff is GPL'd code, not LGPL'd.  (It's been awhile
since I looked).



Nate