[jdom-interest] Imcompatibility with GPL

[Michael Kay]

> 
> See
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-java.html
> 
> That's the lawyer you're talking about.


"It has always been the FSF's position that dynamically linking applications
to libraries creates a single work derived from both the library code and
the application code."

Would that apply to calling a library remotely via SOAP or REST or via an
exec() call as well? I still haven't a clue what they mean by linking. I
can't think of any piece of software that is useful for any non-trivial
purpose unless it is capable of being invoked by something else. Are there
some kinds of invocation that involve linking and others that don't?

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/