Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/02/21/09:18:04
Douglas Rupp (rupp AT gnat DOT com) wrote:
: I'm afraid you've got this backwards.
Really? In what way? Could you elaborate? This is how I interpret the
licenses, anyway.
: George Foot wrote:
: > There are two separate licenses - the GPL (General Public License) and the
: > LGPL (Library General Public License). The LGPL requires you (among other
: > things) to release the full source code to any program which uses routines
: > from the library. As an example, libc is under GPL but libgpp is under LGPL.
: > Consequently, you can decide whether or not to release the source for any C
: > programs you write using libc, but if you write C++ programs using libgpp
: > you must release the source.
: >
: > For information on this, type info gcc copying (this is the GPL) or info
: > libg++ copying (this is the LGPL).
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George Foot <gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford.
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