Am Sonntag, 27. August 2006 18:17 schrieb Francesco Poli: > On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:19:18 +0300 Markus Laire wrote: > > [...] > > > If no, then why would the author want to use LGPL if nobody can use > > the tntdb under that license? > > So that a modified tntdb that links against other libraries (under > non-copyleft licenses such as BSD or MIT, or under the LGPL, or under > proprietary terms) can be linked with any program, with very few > restrictions. > I don't if this is the actual goal of tntdb author, though. > No - not a modified tntdb. The core libtntdb.so itself does not link against mysql. But it can dlopen a driver-library tntdb-mysql.so, which links against mysql.
A LGPLed tntdb should allow programs linking against libtntdb.so without making the program itself GPL. The program is not linked against mysql-libraries, but can be configured to load them. A friens of mine would like to use tntdb to access sqlite3 in a closed-source-application, so he even does not care about mysql. Tommi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
