Can it really be ok to map GPL'd code into any old process?

Pedro Alves palves@redhat.com
Wed Apr 18 20:36:00 GMT 2012


On 04/18/2012 09:30 PM, John Gilmore wrote:

>> It seems to me that we must have a licensing issue here.
>> Can it really be ok to map GPL'd code into any old process?


The IPA can also be injected into the target program with LD_PRELOAD.
The user doesn't have to distribute the result, and indeed that would
be shady area.  But I think just using it like that falls into freedom 0.
IANAL, and all that.

-- 
Pedro Alves



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