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Re: Using LGPL libraries
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From:
Stefan Hornburg
Date:
July 24, 2000 13:42
Subject:
Re: Using LGPL libraries
Message ID:
E13Gon6-0001LT-00@snowflake.linuxia.de
Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> writes:
> 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.
If you get the ported code into the lib, there should be no problem.
So the glib maintainers should contacted first.
Ciao
Racke
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