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

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