?Two Certificate Managers? (Re: regarding KPF)

Rik Hemsley rik at kde.org
Mon Apr 22 21:30:08 BST 2002


#if George Staikos

>    I can write a program that reads in a text file that is not under GPL,
> converts it to machine instructions, and executes it.  I can subdivide this
> task even more if that is not sufficient to show that dynamically loading a
> library is no different than reading machine-input and behaving
> accordingly. I don't buy this argument at all, and I don't suspect that I
> ever will. (though I have heard it many times)
>
>    So what if I open OpenSSL as an input file, read it in, then convert it
> to an executable with f(x) = x, and then execute f(x)?  No different than
> reading in a text file.  Must all of our input files now be GPL too?  If
> so, then the GPL is broken and we should consider abandoning it.

I strongly agree, but can't be bothered with a licensing war right now :)

Rik





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