Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/02/15/06:42:25
On 14 Feb 1998, Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> > In short, if you can link your program with -lstdcxx -liostream, but
> > without -lgpp switch, you can do anything you like with your program.
> > -lgpp causes your work to fall under the GNU License, which see.
>
> Even -lgpp doesn't force it to be free software does it? I thought the
> LGPL merely required your app to be distributed with relinkabkle object
> code (your .o files) and/or sources, so it could be (recompiled and)
> relinked with an updated version of the library that's LGPLed.
You are right. That is what -lgpp implies, and that is what I meant
by ``under the GNU License''. I didn't say ``free software'' since
that is ambiguous.
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