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

From:
horos
Date:
July 24, 2000 17:48
Subject:
Re: Threads, reentrancy, and suchlike things (was: Re: Working Group Proposal)
Message ID:
200007250048.RAA26639@earth.he.net
> 
> Simon Cozens <simon@brecon.co.uk> writes:
> >Benjamin Stuhl (lists.bootstrap):
> >>>And, more importantly, why?
> >>
> >>One word: GPL
> >
> >LPGL, actually.
> >
> >But we're going to throw away all the good development out there
> >for *POLITICAL* reasons? Are you truly barking mad?
> 
> 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 competitor.

well, if glib was used, would that mean the perl source code would necessarily
need to be GPLed? Where does 'derived works' end?

Ie: if I write an office suite in glib - does that mean I need to release that
office suite's source code?

Ed



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