Installshield 6 (inter-proc) patches. LGPL hole.

[David Elliott]

On 2001.12.19 11:43 Dan Kegel wrote:
[BIG SNIP]
> Thanks for explaining what Patrik has been going on about.
> In summary:
> 
> Consider a proprietary application which ships as a proprietary library
> which is statically linked with LGPL libraries at install time in a way
> that lets users supply new versions of the LGPL libraries.  This lets
> them
> fix bugs in the LGPL'd code and thus in the proprietary app.
> The harm you see is that a vendor could, once he found a Winelib function
> with a bug, simply do his own clean-room implementation of that function,
> and use it instead of the Winelib version of it, and keep the improvement
> to himself -- which would also deprive the user of the ability to fix
> bugs in the proprietary reimplementation of that particular WineLib
> function.
> 
> Did I get it right?
> - Dan
> 
> 
Well, you got my argument right.

-Dave