From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Programs compiled with djgpp Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 19:54:59 -0500 Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt. Lines: 30 Message-ID: <34BD5E63.1EE7@cs.com> References: <69j3oo$s3j$1 AT titania DOT telstra DOT net DOT nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp219.cs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Richard Chappell wrote: > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > On 14 Jan 1998, Paul Derbyshire wrote: > > > > > If you use libstdcx, you fall under LGPL > > > > NO!!! libstdcx.a does NOT imply LGPL or GPL; it is free! libgpp.a is > > the one that implies LGPL. If you can link your program with -lstdcxx > > switch alone, then your program is not subject to LGPL. > > whats lgpl? The GNU Library General Public License, which is a somewhat less-restrictive version of the GPL. Basically, it says that if you distribute programs linked with a LGPL library, you have to include or make available the source code or linkable object code for any program that uses the library, and you must make available the library itself. For further details, I suggest reading the LGPL in its entirety; it's the file named COPYING in the source distribution of the library, or the Copying node of the libgpp.a Info docs. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich | "Autocracy is based on the assumption| | aka Fighteer I | that one man is wiser than a million | | mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com | men. Let's play that over again, | | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | too. Who decides?" - Lazarus Long | ---------------------------------------------------------------------