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From:
Tim Bunce
Date:
July 24, 2000 12:47
Subject:
Using LGPL libraries
Message ID:
20000724204140.D23550@ig.co.uk
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 02:12:58PM -0400, abigail wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 06:47:10PM +0200, Paolo Molaro wrote:
> > 
> > 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.

Why?

I'm not well versed in licencing issues and I'd appreciate a clear
summary of the issues with using and possibly porting a LGPL library.

Tim.

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