Re: readline to gnuplot.exe (console mode) for windows

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

Hello

--- "sfeam (Ethan Merritt)" wrote:

> 
> It is a little bit different from that.
> 
> readline is GPL  "General Public License"
> 
> pango and libiconv are LGPL    "Lesser General Public License"  
>                         a.k.a. "Library General Public License"
> 
> see http://svn.gnome.org/svn/pango/trunk/README
>     http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
> 
> The extra "L" is important.  It means that you are explicitly
> allowed to link to it from software using a different license.
> 
> freetype has its own license, but it is essentially BSD, which
> means there are no restrictions about linking to it.  It is also
> possible to obtain freetype under a GPL-compatible license if you
> need one, but that is not the case for gnuplot.
> 
> see http://freetype.sourceforge.net/license.html
> 
> 
> So linking to pango, freetype, and libiconv is not a problem.
> 
> 	Ethan

I really appreciate you for your kind explanations. 

I have just noticed the difference Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC
LICENSE.

For mingw runtime, 
http://www.mingw.org/license

MinGW runtime: The MinGW base runtime package has been placed in the public domain, and is not
governed by copyright. This basically means that you can do what you like with the code.

It is no restriction for the copyright. Sorry my confusions. 
Therefore it is no problem to distribute the binaries in the current style built in the MinGW
environments. 

The readline of cygwin binaries in currently to might be a problem.

Anyway I will try the libeditline to avoid the problem.

Regards

Tatsuro

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