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From: Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
To: rbw3@cet.nau.edu
Cc: Brian Rogoff <bpr@best.com>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] CDK license
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:05:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010606090526.A4764@lambda.u-strasbg.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105310102470.14896-100000@earth.zigamorph.net>

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:05:00AM +0000, rbw3@cet.nau.edu wrote:
> 
> If my understanding is correct, the CDK library being under GPL is
> different then what you think. All that means it that the tools that they
> use to put the library together are GPL, not that the software you develop
> with the CDK is GPL.
> 
> A huge example of this is the GCC suite.

No, it is not, since the CDK contains a bunch of libraries, which have to be
linked with the code, and as thus make the final product GPled also.

While gcc does not such thing, only process the code.

There could be an analogy with glibc though, which is GPLed.

Friendly,

Sven Luther
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-06  7:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-30 19:06 Brian Rogoff
2001-05-31  1:05 ` rbw3
2001-06-06  7:05   ` Sven LUTHER [this message]
2001-06-06  7:42     ` Sven LUTHER
2001-05-31  2:27 ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-05-31  3:11   ` Brian Rogoff
2001-05-31  7:46     ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2001-06-06  7:40     ` Sven LUTHER
2001-06-06  8:36       ` reig
2001-06-06  8:51         ` Sven LUTHER
2001-06-06  9:01           ` [Caml-list] question about modules Mark Wotton
2001-06-06 10:01             ` Markus Mottl
2001-06-06 13:17               ` Mark Wotton
2001-05-31 22:05 ` [Caml-list] CDK license John Max Skaller
2001-06-06  9:44 Dave Berry
2001-06-06 10:04 ` Sven LUTHER
2001-06-06 15:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2001-06-07  1:25   ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-06-08 12:59     ` Sven LUTHER
2001-06-07  9:03   ` Joerg Czeranski
2001-06-06 10:24 Dave Berry
2001-06-06 16:24 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-06-08 13:27   ` Sven LUTHER
2001-06-08 15:35     ` Brian Rogoff
2001-06-08 13:24 ` Sven LUTHER

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