From: mattmsykes@... (Matt M Sykes) Date: 2002-04-27T19:40:30+09:00 Subject: Re: a small ruby for embedded applications matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) wrote in message news:<1019866175.678383.12427.nullmailer@picachu.netlab.jp>... > Hi, > > In message "Re: a small ruby for embedded applications" > on 02/04/27, Matt M Sykes writes: > > |It is my understanding that statically linking to a LGPL library > |requires your source code to be released or to be publically available > |upon request. > > No. Linking a GPL library will make your source code to be opened, > but a LGPL library will not. You just have to allow re-linking your > application with newer version of the library. See COPYING.LIB file. You are right, I forgot about that part. But practically speaking, most companies will not want to bother distributing all their object files along with a Makefile or a project file (for Codewarrior) for each platform. Aside from being just a hassle, in many cases this is technically or politically infeasible. In particular, publishing the object files with their linking symbols, compiler options and such would probably violate our non-disclosure agreement with Sony since we would effectively be exposing Sony's PlayStation 2 API. --Matt