On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Brian Cameron wrote: > > Many programs which use GStreamer are under the GPL license, and the GPL > license does not allow you to link with any code that contains license > restrictions (such as patents that require you to pay fees to use them).
It is good that Sun pays attention to such things. > Thoughts? If Solaris came with a standard C/C++ compiler (as old SunOS used to), then many licensing problems could be solved by shipping the source code and compiling it into the final application at install time. :-) Solaris package installation is so slow that some users would not notice a difference. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
