Re: [GD-Linux] ANN: Candy Cruncher for Linux shipped

[Mark C. <me...@th...>]

On Thursday 28 February 2002 9:23 pm, Steve Baker wrote:
> I think the issue is/was whether the game itself was statically linked to
> GTK. That would presumably be contary to the LGPL rules.
>
> I dunno - he just asked you a perfectly reasonable question - it wasn't an
> accusation.  I just don't think that's a reason to get into the whole "Why
> the heck should we support Linux when people just complain" thing.

Thanks Steve...

Seeing as I'm going through The Book From Hell right now, I can quickly look 
at the LGPL (see, the 10% of licenses does have a use *grin*), and it forbids 
linking against closed source applications, and section 4 is the relevent 
clause here (you must include machine readable source with the distrobution), 
or offer equivilent access.

Ryan informed us that the installer is statically linked, and as there is no 
note informing us about where to get the GTK source, this is a violation. 
It's not a major one, but there are probably some people out there who will 
make a big deal about it (I'm not, I was just trying to make you aware of a 
potential problem, which you took personally).
 
I didn't intend to start a flamewar here (first time for everything, I 
guess), I was just trying to be helpful, and offer some constructibe 
criticisism (sp?)

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