From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 21 16:52:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA08822 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 16:52:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA08817 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 16:52:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA02282; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 17:48:32 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199702220048.RAA02282@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: RMS's view on dynamic linking To: sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 17:48:32 -0700 (MST) Cc: nate@trout.mt.sri.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199702220011.QAA05847@kithrup.com> from "Sean Eric Fagan" at Feb 21, 97 04:11:07 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The LGPL was written to allow shared libraries to be created using LGPL'd > code; this was stated by many people involved with the creation of the LGPL > (I worked with/for some of them, and the issue came up *many* times). > > Ignore Terry when he comes up and talks about how the LGPL doesn't work. ;) You mean the fact that initialized data for a shared library is linked into the executable image itself "doesn't count" for some reason which RMS refuses to put into writing in the LGPL itself? Or the fact that you *could* make it work with ELF and segment coloring, but not even Linux actually does this? Or are we back to the "use = derivation" vs. "use = utilization" argument. 8-|. Foo. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.