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: 1025b4,43ae7f61992b3213 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,faf964ea4531e6af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software Date: 1999/04/29 Message-ID: <7garml$fcj$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 472442123 References: <7fibd5$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> <3728C535.4AFA09C2@doc.ic.ac.uk> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x3.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Apr 29 23:58:15 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-04-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3728C535.4AFA09C2@doc.ic.ac.uk>, Ed Avis wrote: > > 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 First of all, this obviously does not address the problem of C++ templates or Ada 95 generics. If this is not clear, it is perhaps from a lack of familiarity with these features. Second, for Ada, you can't just relink, you have to rebind, and recompute the elaboration order, and obviously objects are not sufficient for this. All the world does not look like C (and the LGPL was obviously designed with C in mind :-) -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own