Re: Copyrights

Andrew Valencia wrote:
>
> [Dave Hudson <dave@humbug.demon.co.uk> writes:]
>
> >The Linux crowd thrashed this one around for a while and in the end moved
> >all of the libc code over to LGPL'd stuff (coding replacements for GPL'd
> >things) and then placed the crt0 file under a BSD style copyright since it's
> >the thing that must be linked with the user's software.
>
> With shared libraries we can go one better. I'm pretty sure that I can set
> things up so that the stub library--which is all that is linked with the
> application--is public domain. I *think* I can even get crt0 into the
> shared library. This would allow people to generate commercial products
> with a minimum of hassle.

Sounds like a good solution - I like the sound of moving crt0's
functionality into the library. I guess we'd just have an even simpler stub
that only knows how to load the library and run the functions from crt0?

> BTW, I have shared libraries working under VSTa. Right now I'm fiddling
> with a second-level shared library loader. The extra level of indirection
> is so that the policy of loading can be updated by replacing the
> second-level loader.

Would this mean that I could go away and implement a new shared library
mechanism (if I was that much of a masochist) and not have to recompile all
of my binaries?

                Regards,
                Dave
Received on Thu Sep 29 08:35:44 1994