From: garbanzo@hooked.net (Alex) Subject: Re: coolview+less: search dying 22 Sep 1997 22:27:44 -0700 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Chris Faylor wrote: > The problem is due to the fact that Cygnus has removed regexec and > regcomp from the next version of cygwin.dll because the source is > LGPL rather than GPL. Sergey's coolview stuff reflects the current > cygwin sources so this has been removed. > > I don't know if Cygnus plans to replace the regex functions with > something GPL'ed for B19, but in the meantime it will be necessary to > link in a static version of these routines into anything that requires > them. There's always the Berkely copyrighted regex stuff. Could someone however explain to me in layman's terms what the difference is between GPL and LGPL? > I'll see about updating the less on my web page in the next couple of days > to work around this problem. - alex - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".