From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,faf964ea4531e6af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,43ae7f61992b3213 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: Ed Avis Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software Date: 1999/04/29 Message-ID: <3728C535.4AFA09C2@doc.ic.ac.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 472434551 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7fibd5$jc7$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <7g5cb2$bjn$1@netnews.upenn.edu> <7g7o6d$lrj$1@flotsam.uits.indiana.edu> <925402294.548.49@news.remarQ.com> <3728AAFA.FAD4A827@doc.ic.ac.uk> <3728B4BE.EE06316C@aasaa.ofe.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@doc.ic.ac.uk X-Trace: lux.doc.ic.ac.uk 925418805 2981 146.169.49.30 (29 Apr 1999 20:46:45 GMT) Organization: Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Apr 1999 20:46:45 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1999-04-29T20:46:45+00:00 List-Id: David Starner wrote: [why not distribute libraries under the GPL?] >Because with a template based library, it can be virtually impossible to >sepearte the library and program in the way that the LGPL requires. The >only way to permit relinking would be to include source files for the >program, something not acceptable for proprietary programs. I don't understand what you mean. Surely the library can be stored in a separate shared object or DLL, and loaded just before the program starts running, which would be a strict separation of library code from program code. -- Ed Avis