Hi Joe, On Monday, 2007-05-21 12:36:49 -0400, Joe Smith wrote:
> >The GNU libstdc++ code won't do anyway because it is GPL, not LGPL. ... > > IANAL--I don't even like to discuss licenses--but I thought as long as > you simply _use_ a GPL library, you're not under the GPL. The idea here > would be to simply link to standard functions in libstdc++, not to copy > source code and modify it for OOo. Unless I'm mistaken, OOo already > links to libstdc++. Well, yes, but using the libstdc++ regexps in its library form would mean that certain functionality would only be available on platforms having that lib, which would make OOo behave different between platforms, something we don't want. Eike -- OOo/SO Calc core developer. Number formatter stricken i18n transpositionizer. OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't send personal mail to this [EMAIL PROTECTED] account, which I use for mailing lists only and don't read from outside Sun. Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
