Re: Integration of gettext in Perl

[Guido Flohr]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 12:33:35PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> So if you call GNU gettext *or* any other library that implements the
> same interface--and there really are other libraries that implement
> the same interface--then you are probably totally in the clear.

But that was my point: If you reference symbols from a shared library,
they may be resolved into a non-GPL library on your own system, and
into a GPL library on one of your zillion users system.  If you write
a Motif or OpenGL application you have absolutely no way to determine
whether your end users will link into the original (proprietary)
libraries or into Lesstif or Mesa.  This is a matter of configuration
on the end system.  And this applies to every dynamically linked
executable, that is the nature of dynamic linking.

> 
> I would suggest describing the whole situation to address@hidden  
> 

I will.

Guido
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