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that they blur the distinction we usually make between modifying or
adding to a program and simply using it. Linking a program with a
library, without changing the library, is in some sense simply using
the library, and is analogous to running a utility program or
application program. However, in a textual and legal sense, the
linked executable is a combined work, a derivative of the original
library, and the ordinary General Public License treats it as such.
Because of this blurred distinction, using the ordinary General
Public License for libraries did not effectively promote software
sharing, because most developers did not use the libraries. We
concluded that weaker conditions might promote sharing better.
However, unrestricted linking of non-free programs would deprive
the users of those programs of all benefit from the free status of the
libraries themselves. This Library General Public License is
intended to permit developers of non-free programs to use free
libraries, while preserving your freedom as a user of such programs
to change the free libraries that are incorporated in them. (We have
not seen how to achieve this as regards changes in header files, but
we have achieved it as regards changes in the actual functions of the
Library.) The hope is that this will lead to faster development of
free libraries.