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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 08:45:27 +0000
From: Ricardo Gayoso <alfa285@internet.siscotel.com>
Subject: Re: BLITZ: More about 0.2-alpha-05
To: tveldhui@oonumerics.org
Todd,
>Also, perhaps most importantly, Blitz++ is now distributed under the
>terms of the GNU General Public License.
I am very sorry for that. This practically means that anybody can use
the library without breaking some part of GNU GPL.
Richard Stallman (rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu) explained me that a GNU library
can only be use on a free program.
Even if I don't link your library (just load it dynamically) and I tell
my users to go to your site and download the DLL
or the source and they recompile it: this is also forbidden because all
the modules that calls each other must also be free.
This also forbids to use the library under Windows NT because when you
load the executable, user32.dll kernel32.dll and others
are loaded in your address space and are called by the library, and they
are not free. So under x86 the only choice is Linux.
Do you sell the library ? Does some other company sell it ?
Regards,
Ricardo E. Gayoso
ALFANUCLEAR
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