Navindra Umanee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Netscape license:
> You may not: > * modify, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble > LGPL license: > 6. As an exception to the Sections above, you may also compile or > link a "work that uses the Library" with the Library to produce a > work containing portions of the Library Holy gods, then we're back to the argument whether a dynamically linked executable is derived from the headers used to produce it. In the specific case of glibc I think that very strong arguments could be made that the contents of the glibc headers are, by their nature, NOT "contained in" the binary - and hence the executable is out of the jurisdiction of the copyright license on the library. In a more pragmatic mode of argument, dynamic linking *is* enough to give the user what the LGPL is meant to protect: the opportunity to change the library code that is run when he runs Netscape. -- Henning Makholm
