On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 06:38:36PM +0200, Waldek Hebisch wrote: > Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote: > > > > Note that I do not intend to change the interface. ECL would continue > > to build with GMP, and for platforms that make it easy to pull in > > arbitrary software (Linux *BSD, etc) this is the recommended option. > > However, elsewhere we need a library that can be packed together with > > ECL and which does not have license problems -- GMP switched to a more > > restrictive license and this means I cannot upgrade ECL to use newer > > versions. > > Could you explain this? Looking at GMP site I see that they > claim licence to be LGPL v3+. Looking at MPIR site I see > the same. So what is different?
Actually download the most recent GMP version and look at the license. It doesn't appear to be LGPL anymore--instead it is GPL v3. -pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041391&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Ecls-list mailing list Ecls-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecls-list
