From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18994 invoked by alias); 13 Feb 2002 20:19:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact sourcenav-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: sourcenav-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 18919 invoked from network); 13 Feb 2002 20:19:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ics.com) (216.112.183.3) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Feb 2002 20:19:25 -0000 Received: from ics.com (ics.com [216.112.183.3]) by ics.com (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5) with ESMTP id PAA24681 Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:19:23 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C6ACA54.808AB195@ics.com> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 12:49:00 -0000 From: Robert Hartley Organization: Integrated Computer Solutions (ICS) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.8-26mdk i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sourcenav@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: SN backend GPL or LGPL? (was: SourceNav release...) References: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------D43C7D94465E46677D9187CD" X-SW-Source: 2002-q1/txt/msg00071.txt.bz2 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------D43C7D94465E46677D9187CD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-length: 975 Doug Fraser wrote: > If you link in a library, your new work embodies that library, and > thus is covered by the license of the underlying library. If that were > not so, then any OpenSource project could be turned into a library > in order to void the GPL. So the act of linking to a library binds your > work to the underlying license. Deriving a library from a GPL product > conveys GPL status to that library, since the library is a derivative work. > > Which, in the spirit of the tool and the spirit of OpenSource, is > as it should be. However, I can't see that it would keep you from > developing an extended IDE if the rest of the IDE communicated to > SN through an API that did not require linking. CORBA as you say > or a database. All other issues aside, using Corba or something as a workaround would not be in the collaborative spirit of open source. That is why I am wondering about an LGPL version of the SN backend. Thanks to all for listening, - Rob --------------D43C7D94465E46677D9187CD Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="rhartley.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Robert Hartley Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="rhartley.vcf" Content-length: 366 begin:vcard n:Hartley;Robert tel;fax:617-621-9555 tel;work:617-621-0060 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.ics.com/ org:Integrated Computer Solutions (ICS);Engineering version:2.1 email;internet:robert.hartley@ics.com title:Systems Engineer adr;quoted-printable:;;Sixth Floor=0D=0A201 Broadway;Cambridge;MA;02139;USA x-mozilla-cpt:;7328 fn:Robert Hartley end:vcard --------------D43C7D94465E46677D9187CD--