[Ffmpeg-devel] Patch for dynamic liba52.so loading

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 05:37:08PM +0200, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> August Mayer <amayer at cosy.sbg.ac.at> writes:
> 
> > I think the FSF explicitly states that GPL'ed dynamically-linked
> > libraries do extend their copyright to the code they are linked to,
> 
> That is indeed their stance, but the FSF does not make the law.  Those
> who do make the law appear to be of a different opinion.

The FSF decides under what terms someone is allowed to copy code to
which they hold copyright. Again, read my message. It's very complete
as to what they can and cannot enforce. Naturally anyone else
publishing code under the GPL can demand the same things, and should.

Rich