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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Relicensing another author's work
From:       Michael Howell <mhowell123 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-06-13 16:02:20
Message-ID: 200906130902.25982.mhowell123 () gmail ! com
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On Friday 12 June 2009 09:27:02 Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> Does this mean that any program that uses, say KFileDialog, can't link
> to it, since it may be linked to libsmb to view samba folders or
> something?
Nope.

The GPL only applies to distribution. The only time libsmb has anything to do 
with your program is after it is already distributed. Your program is not a 
"derived work" of libsmb; it contains no part of it.

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