On 23:24 Thu 08 Feb , Tzachi Dar wrote: > > > The windows open IB has decided on using a BSD only license. > > > The common implementation of pthreads as far as I know is > > LGPL, which > > > means that it can not be used in open IB. > > > > Why not? AFAIK it works perfectly (see (5,6 and Preamble)): > > http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html > > > > And of course there are tons of examples when BSD software > > links against LGPLed glibc. > > I can of course write you an answer that will be more than 5 pages long > of why *I* don't think that > Using GPL software is bad for everyone, but I guess that my opinion > doesn't really meter, so I > Won't do it.
I didn't mean to take it in this direction, sorry. I reffered original LGPL text where stated explicitly that non-(L)GPL programs can be linked against LGPLed libraries. And again, there are lot of examples (Apache, Mozilla, Xorg, etc.) where this works. > The page that you have referenced is of the GNU org, and even there it > is hard to say that they > are trying to encourage you to use the LGPL license. In any case, the > main point is that > When open IB windows was formed there was a general decision that it > will use BSD license. If we > Start having components with the LGPL this will break that decision, and > therefore this requires > some voting of the open IB organization. You are not going to maintain win-pthread32 as OpenIB component, but using this as third party. I think this should not be very different from using native windows thread dll (which I guess is not BSD too). I don't any LGPL issue here. Make sense? Sasha _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
