Marc Eberhard wrote:
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 12:38:21AM +0200, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Thus a program can become free by more and more free parts in it. It's a matter of time. Each piece of free software in a closed source program is one secret less, they have in their safes.
As long as they can't make secret changes in those pieces (LGPL prevent this, as any changes to the library itself must be distributed with source when distributing a binary based on the library).
Dynamic libraries should also be quite efficient from a practical point of view. If the program uses a "standard" shared lib on the system, it is impossible to modify the free library, at least impossible for the evil closed source software company.
Yep -- and if they link statically, they have to provide object files and the source of any changes they make to the library (LGPL).
Frank