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Re: [Fwd: [Cvsnt] cvs + M$ Integration with VS IDE]
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Laine Stump |
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Re: [Fwd: [Cvsnt] cvs + M$ Integration with VS IDE] |
Date: |
13 Oct 2000 18:52:08 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 |
Tony Hoyle <address@hidden> writes:
> The site seems to be down ATM. He can't distribute source because he
> has signed a Microsoft NDA.
>
> A way around this would be for his program to execute the real
> cvs.exe, and communicate with it through pipes. I believe that
> would remove the violation, since CVS would then be a separate
> process.
The way you previously explained it, he was calling a GPL'ed DLL -
that's the same (in the eyes of the GPL) as executing a separate
binary. He's not violating the GPL unless his program links in GPL'ed
code *at compile time*; runtime is okay. (Of course he should check
this out with a lawyer to be sure, but that's the way I've always
understood it.)