[Fedora-legal-list] License compatibility and preloaded libraries

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 03/25/2009 06:48 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> I've found a package that contains a a library intended to be shimmed
> into the system with LD_PRELOAD.  The library itself is under the CPL
> license.  Are there any troubling issues surrounding dynamic linking of a
> CPL-licensed library in this manner?
> 
> My take on this is that we couldn't link CPL code with, say, GPL code
> together and distribute the resulting binary, but when the end user
> performs that linking by setting LD_PRELOAD and running a binary, they
> aren't distributing the result so there's no license violation.  It's
> all pretty much beyond me, though.

Any chance I can see the package in question?

~spot