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Re: Threads, reentrancy, and suchlike things (was: Re: Working Group Proposal)

From:
abigail
Date:
July 24, 2000 19:40
Subject:
Re: Threads, reentrancy, and suchlike things (was: Re: Working Group Proposal)
Message ID:
20000725023939.5381.qmail@foad.org
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 07:36:27PM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> According to Dan Sugalski:
> > On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Simon Cozens wrote:
> > > Fair enough, but I'm talking about LGPLed libraries which are not viral.
> > [...]
> > 2) Need to snag the code and beat it into submission ourselves.
> >    #2 has licensing issues.
> 
> I don't think so.  Once LGPL'd, always LGPL'd.


I think the point is that if you _snag_ the code and use it, you are
no longer _linking_ against it, so the L aspect of the LGPL doesn't
apply.



Abigail



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