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Dan Sugalski
Date:
July 24, 2000 20:17
Subject:
Re: Threads, reentrancy, and suchlike things (was: Re: Working GroupProposal)
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Pine.LNX.4.10.10007242326190.25818-100000@tuatha.sidhe.org
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, 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.

Right. Which precludes us from snagging it. Using the library, sure, but
not grabbing and modifying the code. Though I suppose we could ship a
modified libwhatever with perl, but that still doesn't feel right.
(Regardless of whether it's legit, which is a separate question)

					Dan
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