glib dependency for the X Server

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Mon Apr 3 09:11:04 PDT 2006


Ian Romanick wrote:
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> Matthieu Herrb wrote:
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>> No, LGPL is not the same as the X/MIT or BSD license. It has more
>> constraints.
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>> O.Org has firmly stated in the past that it would keep its code under
>> the X/MIT license, so this is unacceptable.
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> Does that mean we shouldn't link with glibc either?  That might be a
> problem.

No - it means you shouldn't require glibc-specific features, but
remain compatible with all libc's.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering



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