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Postings from July 2000
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 06:47:10PM +0200, Paolo Molaro wrote: > On 07/24/00 Moore, Paul wrote: > > It's not a political issue. It's a legal one. The (L)GPL is a statement of > > permission, by the developer, of what conditions apply to the use if "his" > > (under copyright law) software. > > > > If we reuse code, we have to comply - both in terms of not violating the > > license of any software we reuse, and also in terms of not giving Perl a > > license which is incompatible with the license(s) of any of its components. > > I think Simon talked about *linking* with glib. That should be fine with > perl since it already links to another LGPL lib (libc). Does glib run on all platforms perl runs on? If not, it has to be ported and distributed with perl, and we're back to the GPL problem again. Abigail