[systemd-devel] Systemd license vs. libcryptsetup license

[Krzysztof Jackiewicz]

> No, that makes no sense. It'd mean that putting two zip files that one provides
> and the other uses a function with the same name next to one another would
> make them somehow connected and derivatives of one another. The whole
> point of dynamic linking is that you can provide independent implementations
> of the API, and you can clearly substitute libcryptsetup with another
> implementation, and both bodies of code are usable without one another.

Then how would you interpret the following statements:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLStaticVsDynamic
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfLibraryIsGPL
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation

IMHO it's not so obvious and it may depend on a specific case. Perhaps in case of runtime dynamic linking when GPL library existence is not required for the application to run it will be treated as a mere aggregation. With all due respect I think that to solve it we'd need a lawyer indeed :)

Krzy