Licensing of Lisaac

[Xavier Oswald]

On 15:06 Wed 26 Aug     , Nicolas Boulay wrote:
> 2009/8/26 Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy at cowgar.com>:
> >> >> We need a specific clause on the LGPL to take into account the global
> >> >> compilation mechanism of  Lisaac that make it impossible to change at
> >> >> will the LGPL lib at runtime.
> >> >
> >> > Change it by who at will?
> >>
> >> By the user. It's not easy in Lisaac.
> >
> > Why would the user not be allowed to change it?
> 
> In C, there is the link process which is easy to use. In lisaac, there
> is a global optimisation that create one big C file. There is no way
> with a binary from Lisaac code that you could change the binary part
> that belong to a LGPL lib.
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.txt section 4.d.1


Well it seems that LGPL is good for the library but for supporting our global
compilation system, so you suggest to write our own extension ?

Greetings,
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