On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > Hi, > > At Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:45:25 +0100, > Pablo Saratxaga wrote: > > > > Kaixo! > > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 02:37:46PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > > > > > Robert Brady's patch to be merged into the xterm.One is license > > > problem; Robert's patch contains FriBidi code which is LGPL. > > > > So? > > > > There is no problem at all to link against a LGPL library. > > In GNU/Linux *all* of XFree86 is linked with LGPL libraries. > > THe libc and libm ones, namely. > > I mean, not *link*, but Robert's patch *contains* LGPL code. > > And, even if Robert's patch will be rewrited not to *contain* > fribidi but to *link* fribidi, do you think it is a good idea > for XFree86 distribution to need FriBidi to be compiled?
Why "need"? This can be an optional feature. I believe xterm uses autoconf ;-) -- Tzafrir Cohen /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \ _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
