On Wednesday 10 June 2009 22:23:09 Chris Robinson wrote: > On Wednesday 10 June 2009 3:51:57 pm Andres Mejia wrote: > > The ALURE Homepage says ALURE is licensed under LGPL. Checking the source > > however, there is no copyright headers in any of the source files and > > there's only the LGPL 2 license in the 'COPYING' file in the top source > > directory. Did you mean "LGPL version 2 or (at your option) any later > > version" like with the OpenAL Soft license? > > Hi. Yes, ALURE's license is intended to be LGPL v2 or later, like OpenAL > Soft. I'll try to add that to the sources (as long as it doesn't mess up > Natural Docs' output), or to a readme.
Ok, thanks for the clarification. > > Also, the example programs are built by cmake but not installed. Is this > > intentional? What I'm doing right now is including the sources for the > > example programs as part of the documentation for the ALURE development > > package. > > I never gave much thought to installing the example programs, as they were > mostly intended as example code showing the simple uses of the lib. They > could, though, I guess be useful for making sure the lib is working.. but I > have to wonder how many sound playing apps a user will need. I'll just include the sample code in the ALURE packages. > > Also, I see there's an option for building a static library but doesn't > > allow it to be built with the shared library. This isn't like OpenAL Soft > > where there's no such option and the -DLIBTYPE=STATIC option has to be > > passed into cmake. For ALURE, do you have any objections for installing > > static libraries alongside shared libraries? > > My main reservation with static libraries with ALURE (as opposed to OpenAL) > is that it shares the same name as the shared lib. If you install both > libalure.so and libalure.a, then linking with -lalure will always pick the > shared lib AFAIK. Conversely, libalure.a isn't needed for any pre-compiled > binaries, and since pkg-config isn't flexible enough to "select" between > shared and static, all linking the user does would use the shared lib if > it's there. -lalure would indeed pick the shared lib by default. I will go ahead and provide a static library for ALURE in Debian as well. -- Regards, Andres -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
