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Re: apache.make
From: |
Richard Frith-Macdonald |
Subject: |
Re: apache.make |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Nov 2000 07:30:49 +0000 |
On Tuesday, November 28, 2000, at 05:44 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> As a first step, I wrote an extension to the GNUstep make package which
> allows to write GNUstep-based Apache modules. It is quite simple, being
> composed of a single apache.make file to be included in the GNUmakefile.
>
> How does Apache communicate with a module? Is it by linking,
> or by fork-and-exec? A subsequent message suggests that Apache
> links them dynamically.
>
> If these modules are linked with Apache, and if they also need to link
> in GNUstep libraries, this raises a legal issue. The Apache license
> is incompatible with the GNU GPL.
>
> I don't remember which license the GNUstep libraries use; could you
> tell me? If they use the GPL, they can't be linked with Apache. If
> they use the LGPL or another license that permits linking with
> everything, then there is no obstacle.
GNUstep uses LGPL (except for a few command-line utilities etc that are GPL).
Ceertainly all the libraries and similar code are LGPL
- Re: apache.make, (continued)
- Re: apache.make, Philippe C . D . Robert, 2000/11/27
- Re: apache.make, Richard Stallman, 2000/11/28
- Re: apache.make, mirko . viviani, 2000/11/27
- Re: apache.make, Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2000/11/27
- Re: apache.make, Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2000/11/27
- Re: apache.make, Gregory Casamento, 2000/11/28
- Re: apache.make,
Richard Frith-Macdonald <=