[vlc-devel] Re: Compilation for WinCE succesful

Christophe Massiot massiot at via.ecp.fr
Fri Jan 17 13:59:33 CET 2003


On Fri, Jan 17, 2003, Stephane wrote:

> If you are in trouble, please contact <postmaster at videolan.org>
> Ah, too bad. The creation of a specific interface, as stated in
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LinkingWithGPL
> is out of the question?

You'd require the agreement of at least a hundred people, which would be
more work than rewriting the whole stuff onyour own...

> This does not solve the problem of patching the decoders,
> but this could be solved by only statically linking the libraries,

If you statically link with LGPL libraries, you must provide a way for the
user to statically link with a modified version of the LGPL library. So
that doesn't solve the problem at all.

-- 
Christophe Massiot.
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