Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 13:29:52 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LGPL confusion Message-ID: <19980929132952.40372@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <36105F54.C89F7564@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 10:17:24PM -0600 References: <Pine.SOL.4.02A.9809281050130.20593-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au> <19980928142954.22124@follo.net> <36105F54.C89F7564@softweyr.com>
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On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 10:17:24PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > Eivind Eklund wrote: > > Shared library technology does probably not release you from the > > requirement to release object files. > > If you distribute GTK itself as a shared library, you have no need to > release your own object files, as a user could (theoretically) create > a new shared GTK library, fixing any problems and/or adding functionality > to GTK, and still use it with your program. This is not clear, given the present state of shared library technology. The FSF has (according to Terry) refused to come with a statement to this effect. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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