Re: licensing question for a C++ template library

 Hi Florian,

Thanks for your very useful answer. I think you've answered all of our 
questions. Also, I indeed found the relevant exception in the GNU STL 
headers.

Thanks again
Benoit

Le mercredi 25 octobre 2006 09:45, Florian Weimer a écrit :
> * Benoît Jacob:
> > Thanks very much for your answers.
> >
> >> See the C++ run-time library
> >> and the GNAT run-time library for examples (Ada is quite similar to
> >> C++, at least in GCC's implementation).
> >
> > What do you call the C++ runtime library? I looked at the GNU STL, but
> > all I saw was the GPL2 license unmodified.
>
> The exception is mentioned in the corresponding header files.
>
> > Also I couldn't find the license for the GNAT runtime library, any link?
>
> It's also mentioned in the source files.
>
> > Can I ask you if you might help us fill the table in my first post? If I
> > understand well, Simo's answer, though useful, wasn't specific to the
> > case of a template library.
>
> Okay, here's my try:
>
> +------------------------------+-------------------------------------------
>-+
>
> |                              | a program or library licensed under the...
> |                              | |
> |
> |                             
> | +-----+------+--------+------------+---------+
> |
> |                              | GPL | LGPL | BSD    | Non-free   |Non-free
> |                              | |
> |                              |
> |                              |     |      | (no ad | but sources| closed-
> |                              |     |      | | clause)| available  |
> |                              |     |      | source  |
>
> +------------------+-----------+-----+------+--------+------------+--------
>-+
>
> | can use a C++    |           |     |      |        |            |        
> | | template library | GPL       | yes | NO   |  NO    |    no      |   no 
> |   | licensed under   |           |     |      |        |            |    
> |     | the ...         
> | +-----------+-----+------+--------+------------+---------+ and still
> | remain |           |     |      |        |            |         |
> | distributable    | LGPL      | yes |  yes |  **    |   MAYBE    |   NO   
> | | under its own    |           |     |      |        |            |      
> |   | license         
> | +-----------+-----+------+--------+------------+---------+
> |
> |                  | BSD       | YES |  YES |   yes  |    YES     |  YES   
> |                  | |
> |
> |                 
> | +-----------+-----+------+--------+------------+---------+
> |
> |                  | add your  |     |      |        |            |        
> |                  | | idea here |     |      |        |            |      
> |                  |   |
> |
> |------------------+-----------+-----+------+--------+------------+--------
> |-+
>
> **: Depends on the availability of source code.

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