Because LiS is LGPL, anyone can link proprietary object modules with it. Those modules do not have to be STREAMS drivers. They can be modules that accomplish a port to some other operating system environment. No LGPL license violation there.

LiS is intentionally structured in such a way as to make such things possible, and even halfway straightforward.

-- Dave

At 12:01 AM 8/6/2003 Wednesday, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:
Dave,

I should hope nobody else has a proprietary port.  Would that not be a
violation of the LGPL license (and the GPL licenses of some components)?

This begs a question: a significant contribution made under LGPL should
not be propagated to your proprietary QNX port, anyway.  The reason
being that to do so would break the licensing terms under which the
contribution was offered.

Another thought is to start a branch dividian LiS, rip the "portable"
out proceed from there.

Other thoughts?

--brian


On Tue, 05 Aug 2003, Dave Grothe wrote:


> At 12:03 AM 8/5/2003 Tuesday, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:
>
>
> >Also, I am confused with your comments regarding Linux kernel-isms.
> >Does LiS run on anything other than Linux?
>
> I have a proprietary port to QNX. There may be others that I don't know
> about. I want LiS to be able to serve as a base for *portable* STREAMS as
> well as *Linux* STREAMS.
>
> Also, any changes should be tested by doing a build in user mode. The user
> mode code should always be the debug version since it is used for testing
> STREAMS algorithms in user space.
>
> Also, see my response to Matt concerning licensing considerations.
>
> -- Dave
>
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