licensing question for a C++ template library
Benoît Jacob
jacob at math.jussieu.fr
Wed Oct 25 08:28:48 UTC 2006
Hi Florian,
Thanks for your very useful answer. I think you've answered all of our
questions. Also, I indeed found the relevant exception in the GNU STL
headers.
Thanks again
Benoit
Le mercredi 25 octobre 2006 09:45, Florian Weimer a écrit :
> * Benoît Jacob:
> > Thanks very much for your answers.
> >
> >> See the C++ run-time library
> >> and the GNAT run-time library for examples (Ada is quite similar to
> >> C++, at least in GCC's implementation).
> >
> > What do you call the C++ runtime library? I looked at the GNU STL, but
> > all I saw was the GPL2 license unmodified.
>
> The exception is mentioned in the corresponding header files.
>
> > Also I couldn't find the license for the GNAT runtime library, any link?
>
> It's also mentioned in the source files.
>
> > Can I ask you if you might help us fill the table in my first post? If I
> > understand well, Simo's answer, though useful, wasn't specific to the
> > case of a template library.
>
> Okay, here's my try:
>
> +------------------------------+-------------------------------------------
>-+
>
> | | a program or library licensed under the...
> | | |
> |
> |
> | +-----+------+--------+------------+---------+
> |
> | | GPL | LGPL | BSD | Non-free |Non-free
> | | |
> | |
> | | | | (no ad | but sources| closed-
> | | | | | clause)| available |
> | | | | source |
>
> +------------------+-----------+-----+------+--------+------------+--------
>-+
>
> | can use a C++ | | | | | |
> | | template library | GPL | yes | NO | NO | no | no
> | | licensed under | | | | | |
> | | the ...
> | +-----------+-----+------+--------+------------+---------+ and still
> | remain | | | | | | |
> | distributable | LGPL | yes | yes | ** | MAYBE | NO
> | | under its own | | | | | |
> | | license
> | +-----------+-----+------+--------+------------+---------+
> |
> | | BSD | YES | YES | yes | YES | YES
> | | |
> |
> |
> | +-----------+-----+------+--------+------------+---------+
> |
> | | add your | | | | |
> | | | idea here | | | | |
> | | |
> |
> |------------------+-----------+-----+------+--------+------------+--------
> |-+
>
> **: Depends on the availability of source code.
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