begin quoting Michael O'Keefe as of Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 05:16:13PM -0700: > >>Their runtime is GPL with exception so people can make proprietary > >>applications. They've removed the GPL exception from the publically > >>available runtime, but people the old versions still work. You can also > >>use the newest version if a GPL runtime works for you. > > > >So if you use the GPL'd toolchain to _compile_ your application, you > >have to GPL your application, unless you pay them money? > > > >That's the sort of behavior that really pissed me off when proprietary > >companies did such things. > > Aren't .so's supposed to get around that ? > That's how our lawyers approach it. We can't use any .a libraries > But if they don't release any .so's, whachagonnado !?
It's not that hard turning a .a into a .so. As I understand the GPL, however, linking to a .so counts, and so your source gets infected. -- And then there's the whole .jar thing. Stewart Stremler -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
