changing pthreads-win32 license

Phil Frisbie, Jr. phil@hawksoft.com
Fri Oct 31 16:27:00 GMT 2003


Ross Johnson wrote:

> Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> 
>>> It specifically exempts macro definitions and the like.  Read it.
>>
>> You mean "ten lines or less in length"? Yeah, given that the length of 
>> lines seem to be unrestricted. [L]GPL is totally brian-damaged 
>> technically and legally. Really.
>>
> Personally, I'd be inclined to regard any work that included only
> the unmodified LGPL'ed header files, specifically supplied for that
> purpose, and dynamically linked to the unmodified main body of the
> library, to be an independent and separate work as far as the LGPL
> goes - static linking and assorted tricks aside for the moment.

Sony Entertainment's lawyers did not seem to have a problem including my LGPL'ed 
HawkVoice library as a DLL in their new game Planetside.

-- 
Phil Frisbie, Jr.
Hawk Software
http://www.hawksoft.com



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