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On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 10:39:39PM -0400, abigail@foad.org wrote: > 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. Uhoh. License lawyering, 50 yds. Section 2 of the LPGL states that libraries derived from LGPL get LGPL, and that you can't just snag code and shove it in an application, but rather it has to be released as a separate library - I didn't know about this. See http://www.gnu.org/copyright/lesser.html All these restrictions in place in the name of freedom. :( -- "Little else matters than to write good code." -- Karl Lehenbauer