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On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Simon Cozens wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 12:14:45AM +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > > I know I would not be allowed to use GPL-only thing for day job - we cannot > > give a customer a chip-design system written in gpled-perl6 if that requires > > us to give customer source and allows customer to give system to a compeditor. > > > > So not 'political' but 'commercial'. > > Fair enough, but I'm talking about LGPLed libraries which are not viral. Right, but we then either: 1) Need to live with the performance and (lack of) side-effects tradeoffs the library designer made or 2) Need to snag the code and beat it into submission ourselves. #1 has potential performance issues (and we're in a very performance-critical segment of the world here) as well as potential portability issues (libunicode available on the palm?). #2 has licensing issues. Once again, I'm not saying we *shouldn't* use libraries, just that we should be very careful in doing so. Dan