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5 A program that contains no derivative of any portion
of the Library, but is designed to work with the Library
by being compiled or linked with it, is called a "work
that uses the Library" Such a work, in isolation, is not
a derivative work of the Library, and therefore falls
outside the scope of this License
However, linking a "work that uses the Library" with
the Library creates an executable that is a derivative
of the Library (because it contains portions of the
Library), rather than a "work that uses the library" The
executable is therefore covered by this License Section
6 states terms for distribution of such executables
When a "work that uses the Library" uses material from
a header file that is part of the Library, the object code
for the work may be a derivative work of the Library
even though the source code is not Whether this is
true is especially significant if the work can be linked
without the Library, or if the work is itself a library The
threshold for this to be true is not precisely defined by
law
If such an object file uses only numerical parameters,
data structure layouts and accessors, and small
macros and small inline functions (ten lines or less in
length), then the use of the object file is unrestricted,
regardless of whether it is legally a derivative work
(Executables containing this object code plus portions
of the Library will still fall under Section 6 )
Otherwise, if the work is a derivative of the Library, you
may distribute the object code for the work under the
terms of Section 6 Any executables containing that
work also fall under Section 6, whether or not they are
linked directly with the Library itself
6 As an exception to the Sections above, you may also
combine or link a "work that uses the Library" with the
Library to produce a work containing portions of the
Library, and distribute that work under terms of your
choice, provided that the terms permit modification
of the work for the customer's own use and reverse
engineering for debugging such modifications
You must give prominent notice with each copy of
the work that the Library is used in it and that the
Library and its use are covered by this License You
must supply a copy of this License If the work during
execution displays copyright notices, you must include
the copyright notice for the Library among them, as
well as a reference directing the user to the copy of this
License Also, you must do one of these things:
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a Accompany
the
work
corresponding machine-readable source code
for the Library including whatever changes were
used in the work (which must be distributed
under Sections 1 and 2 above); and, if the work
is an executable linked with the Library, with the
complete machine-readable "work that uses the
Library", as object code and/or source code, so that
the user can modify the Library and then relink
to produce a modified executable containing the
modified Library (It is understood that the user
who changes the contents of definitions files in the
Library will not necessarily be able to recompile
the application to use the modified definitions )
b Use a suitable shared library mechanism for linking
with the Library A suitable mechanism is one that
(1) uses at run time a copy of the library already
present on the user's computer system, rather than
copying library functions into the executable, and
(2) will operate properly with a modified version of
the library, if the user installs one, as long as the
modified version is interface-compatible with the
version that the work was made with
c Accompany the work with a written offer, valid
for at least three years, to give the same user the
materials specified in Subsection 6a, above, for a
charge no more than the cost of performing this
distribution
d If distribution of the work is made by offering access
to copy from a designated place, offer equivalent
access to copy the above specified materials from
the same place
e Verify that the user has already received a copy of
these materials or that you have already sent this
user a copy
For an executable, the required form of the "work that
uses the Library" must include any data and utility
programs needed for
reproducing the executable from it However, as a
special exception, the materials to be distributed
need not include anything that is normally distributed
(in either source or binary form) with the major
components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the
operating system on which the executable runs, unless
that component itself accompanies the executable
It may happen that this requirement contradicts the
license restrictions of other proprietary libraries that
do not normally accompany the operating system
Such a contradiction means you cannot use both
them and the Library together in an executable that
you distribute
with
the
complete
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