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Nicolas George wrote:

|> 	They are under GPL, but they are not part of the binary. It is
|> often possible to compile a program using a library without
|> including the headers in the source
|
| If you manage it, and if you did not copy the headers either of
course, then
| there is absolutely no legal way the GPL could cause any
constraint to your
| program.

	According to the text of the license, it does. How legal that may
or may not be will probably depend on your country, but the fact
remains that the intent of the FSF was to put those restrictions in
(that is the main difference between the GPL and LGPL: the LGPL
allows dynamic linking without restrictions and static linking with
some restrictions, the GPL doesn't allow any linking unless the
program is GPL).

		Jerome
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