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> in the same way that a C program linked against glibc is not a derivative work of glibc

I believe this is only as a result of the linking exception; I don't know if this has ever been tested, but my understanding was that linking (either statically or dynamically) against a library was generally considered enough to be a derivative work.



My last heads up a fiew years ago was:

Legally people can't decide which form of linkage count as deriving and if the linkage form even matter, but static linking with LTO is most times seen as causing a derivative to be produced.




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