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Re: Dynamic loading of C libraries
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joakim |
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Re: Dynamic loading of C libraries |
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Fri, 21 May 2010 09:25:49 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> I talked with our lawyer, and we determined that GCC's technique of
> checking for a symbol whose name says "I am under a GPL3-compatible
> license" is ok for Emacs and other GNU packages when dynamically
> loading libraries at the C level.
>
> So you can implement dynamic loading with the check for that symbol.
> If the symbol is not present then the function to load should
> report an error and not load it.
Super news!
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Joakim Verona