> FUD ;).  Dynamic linking with either psycopg or PoPy will not contaminate
> your code, because they both implement an API and are not necessary
> components of your application.
> [...]
> I would like to make sure that people understand the position held by the
> FSF lawyers with regards to the GPL's applicability and enforceability,
> because there's a lot of confusion out there.

This is the same FSF that, say, kept the readline library under GPL and
claimed that any application linking to it was a derived product?

This list certainly is not the right forum to debate these sort of
licensing issues.  It's a friendly, helpful, low-volume sort of place, and
I think we should keep it that way.  But it is worth keeping in mind that
the issue of where the boundaries lie is not always all that clear.  When
choosing components for an application, one *should* keep licensing in
mind, as it can affect the licensing of the final result.

jon

Jonathan Corbet
Executive editor, LWN.net
corbet@lwn.net