From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA26242; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:53:05 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA26197 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:53:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr (dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr [130.79.6.1]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f567r3L01038 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:53:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lambda.u-strasbg.fr (mail@lambda.u-strasbg.fr [130.79.90.63]) by dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA26615; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:38:54 +0200 Received: from luther by lambda.u-strasbg.fr with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 157XxS-0001lu-00; Wed, 06 Jun 2001 09:42:26 +0200 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:42:26 +0200 To: Sven LUTHER Cc: rbw3@cet.nau.edu, Brian Rogoff , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] CDK license Message-ID: <20010606094226.C4764@lambda.u-strasbg.fr> References: <20010606090526.A4764@lambda.u-strasbg.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010606090526.A4764@lambda.u-strasbg.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i From: Sven LUTHER Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 09:05:26AM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > 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. Err sorry, the glibc is naturally LGPLed. the LGPL was coined for it after all, but later on, RMS changed the name of it from GNU Library Public Licence to Leaser GNU Public Licence, and discourages it's use. Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr