Installshield 6 (inter-proc) patches
Patrik Stridvall
ps at leissner.se
Mon Dec 17 11:27:06 CST 2001
> While I am thinking about this, there are some interesting
> things in the
> LGPL. One of these is that you can modify the LGPL library
> to work with
> your code. The catch is that you have to release source to the
> modifications and that the modifications must not require that your
> proprietary component be included. The text of the license
> mentions that
> if you modify a function that computes square roots to hook into your
> proprietary components that the function must still compute
> square roots.
> But in Wine's case, many functions don't do what they are
> supposed to do,
> or they do what they are supposed to do but that's not what
> actually needs
> to be done.
That is a very intresting point. Thank you for bring it to my
attention. I didn't realize that.
Hmm. I will have to think about it what this means, if it
indeed means something.
> This stuck out like a sore thumb to me, but
> maybe it's not
> such a big deal.
Can you perhaps say exactly what bothered you?
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