Re: Dynamic loading of C libraries

[Stefan Monnier]

> I talked with our lawyer, and we determined that GCC's technique of
> checking for a symbol whose name says "I am under a GPL3-compatible
> license" is ok for Emacs and other GNU packages when dynamically
> loading libraries at the C level.
> So you can implement dynamic loading with the check for that symbol.
> If the symbol is not present then the function to load should
> report an error and not load it.

That's great news.  So all we need now is for someone to submit a patch
that provides such dynamic loading functionality, and then start
using it.


        Stefan