On Monday 05 February 2007, E. Wing wrote:
> 3) Don't distribute the dependencies yourself and make the user
> download them (or compile them) themselves. (This is obviously
> inconvenient for end-users.)
> 

To be technically correct - this depends on a platform. E.g. on Linux this is 
the preferred way as Linux usually comes "with batteries included" and your 
bundled "extra baggage" could be only source of various trouble when it 
conflicts with the libraries which are on the machine already.

On 2/5/07, Ravi Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks Eric!  What you and Jan said makes sense.  It's a good thing  
> Robert and Don decided to use the wxWindows license ... I can see it  
> being a big hassle to have to distribute all of OSG at request.  I  
> wonder why Sean didn't do so with OpenThreads?

You need to realise that (L)GPL licenses in their current incarnation predate 
internet as we know it now by quite a bit and it wasn't realistic to have a 
web link with download available back then. Unfortunately, there are trolls 
who will take you to task over this. On the other hand there are also 
unscrupulous corporations and individuals taking the free there as free in 
beer only, so the trolls have their purpose too.

Regards,

Jan

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