Re: GPM license question (Sorry Depressing / Annoying )

[Bernd Jendrissek]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Patrick <address@hidden> wrote:
> #ifdef HAVE_LIBDL
> /* use dynamic loader to avoid linkage dependency */
> #include <dlfcn.h>
>
> It must be okay because it's not statically linked

Do some more research. It isn't clear at all that only static linking
would trigger the GPL.

More relevant is whether libncurses is a "major components (compiler,
kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable
runs" or not.

Are you distributing libncurses with your application and making your
app link to that copy of libncurses? If so, is that copy of libncurses
built with USE_GPL_SUPPORT? If so, I'd say the GPL applies to you.