From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31285 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2004 17:35:42 -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 30883 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2004 17:35:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO b.mail.sonic.net) (64.142.19.5) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 6 Dec 2004 17:35:35 -0000 Received: from hawksoft.com (209-204-163-5.vpn.sonic.net [209.204.163.5]) (authenticated bits=0) by b.mail.sonic.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iB6HZVch026885 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 09:35:34 -0800 Message-ID: <41B49828.8010407@hawksoft.com> Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 17:35:00 -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) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pthreads-win32@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Static linking under win32 References: <200412060635.iB66ZiF01425@callisto.canberra.edu.au> <41B40FB0.4070503@callisto.canberra.edu.au> <20041206104619.GC3208@cross> In-Reply-To: <20041206104619.GC3208@cross> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg00164.txt.bz2 Keresztfalvi Laszlo wrote: > For the apropo PW32 have just introduced the DLL and API versioning.. > > If I develop a commercial application then stability rules and I would use a > choosen version of pthread (or any other external) library which I link > against, usually lagging some versions (to be real-life tested). So, even if > I provide the object files I cannot accept any claims if you link it with > eg. a newer version of the library either statically or dynamically. > > Moreover, I usually use more than one external library with some licenses so > then I must provide those too to really enable you to relink.. > > I think this would be not a real case if the application is not something > simple and you provide good support which is generally your business.. > Otherwise ask lawers who play that game ;) Sony Entertainment had no problem including my LGPL library as a DLL in their game PlanetSide. They include a copyright notice and the URL to my website so that users can get the full source to the hvdi.dll file. This is what the LGPL is all about. > Regards, > Laszlo -- Phil Frisbie, Jr. Hawk Software http://www.hawksoft.com