From: hfernandes AT mail DOT geocities DOT com (Hilton Fernandes) Subject: Re: coolview+less: search dying 24 Sep 1997 01:38:32 -0700 Message-ID: <199709240813.BAA10554.cygnus.gnu-win32@geocities.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT To: Alex , gnu-win32, gnu AT prep DOT ai DOT mit DOT edu Cc: Hilton Fernandes On 22 Sep 97 at 22:08, Alex wrote: > 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? Hi! Good question! This is exactly my main doubt about the GNU project. And certainly a doubt of many other programmers. I'd like to ask people that can understand legalese, if any of the next statements is correct: - under GPL you can use a software, but not include it in your distribution. If you do, you actually put your software under GPL terms and must offer its source code, as well as make it available to Internet download. For instance, you can compile your software with gcc, but cannot include it in your distribution. Otherwise, your software will be GPLed. - under LGPL (_L_ibrary GPL?), you can include a LGPL software in your distribution. However, if you change -- or enhance -- it, your distribution will be under LGPL too. For instance, if your software use GNU's libc, there's no problem. However, if you correct some bug it may have, your software will be under LGPL too. This certainly isn't totally correct, but i'd like to know how far from it. Best regards, ++Hilton ---- Hilton Fernandes hfernandes AT geocities DOT com http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5657 URLs and help on C++ programming and Object-Oriented Design - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".