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From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com>
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Subject: Re: GPL and Plug-INs and XML\Ada
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 10:31:13 +0200
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David Botton
>For example, If I wrote an application that had a closed lic. and it
allowed
>features to be plugged-in. One such group of features was for file
"import".
>So, I throw together a GPL'd plug-in that included XML\Ada and dropped that
>dll in the dir and it is picked up at run time by the closed lic.
>application.

As long as  you do not link with the GPL library you should be safe.  To be
on the safe side you could add a non-XML dll in order to demonstrate that it
is not a way to rip off the library.


Greetings,