From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14947 invoked by alias); 31 Oct 2003 16:27:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact pthreads-win32-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: pthreads-win32-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 14940 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2003 16:27:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO eth0.b.smtp.sonic.net) (64.142.19.4) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 31 Oct 2003 16:27:17 -0000 Received: from hawksoft.com (209-204-163-4.vpn.sonic.net [209.204.163.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by eth0.b.smtp.sonic.net (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h9VGRGuf027738 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 08:27:17 -0800 Message-ID: <3FA28D50.30503@hawksoft.com> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:27:00 -0000 From: "Phil Frisbie, Jr." Organization: Hawk Software User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pthreads-win32@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: changing pthreads-win32 license References: <3FA20890.5050005@callisto.canberra.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <3FA20890.5050005@callisto.canberra.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003/txt/msg00132.txt.bz2 Ross Johnson wrote: > Alexander Terekhov wrote: > >>> It specifically exempts macro definitions and the like. Read it. >> >> You mean "ten lines or less in length"? Yeah, given that the length of >> lines seem to be unrestricted. [L]GPL is totally brian-damaged >> technically and legally. Really. >> > Personally, I'd be inclined to regard any work that included only > the unmodified LGPL'ed header files, specifically supplied for that > purpose, and dynamically linked to the unmodified main body of the > library, to be an independent and separate work as far as the LGPL > goes - static linking and assorted tricks aside for the moment. Sony Entertainment's lawyers did not seem to have a problem including my LGPL'ed HawkVoice library as a DLL in their new game Planetside. -- Phil Frisbie, Jr. Hawk Software http://www.hawksoft.com