On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 09:11:10PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > John Birrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : The API for this library is deliberately different to the GPL'd > : libdwarf to avoid licensing problems. > > What licensing problems does it avoid? APIs can't be copyrighted, and > therefore can't be GPL'd.
People still put restrictive licenses on headers which define APIs. I don't want to have to argue whether it is legal for them to restrict things like that or not. So I just avoid the problem. -- John Birrell _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
