Re: question about proprietary libraries

2010-09-02 Thread Yavor Doganov
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20100902092854.gr4...@vdg.blogsite.org>, Julien Viard de Galbert wrote: > >Also I think I've read somewhere that no library really enter debian > >unless a program requires it. (which kind of makes sense). > > I mentioned this in another thread. I'm not sure if

Re: question about proprietary libraries

2010-09-02 Thread Stephen Sinclair
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:10 PM, The Fungi wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 12:46:09PM -0400, Stephen Sinclair wrote: > [...] >> I will assume for now that the vendor's policy is to allow people >> to distribute their header files, since otherwise I can't think of >> any legal way to write open sou

Re: question about proprietary libraries

2010-09-02 Thread The Fungi
On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 12:46:09PM -0400, Stephen Sinclair wrote: [...] > I will assume for now that the vendor's policy is to allow people > to distribute their header files, since otherwise I can't think of > any legal way to write open source software that would use their > device. Do you have

Re: question about proprietary libraries

2010-09-02 Thread Stephen Sinclair
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 11:28:54AM +0200, Julien Viard de Galbert wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 05:03:40AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: >> > Hi there. >> > >> > On Sep 01 2010, Stephen Sinclair wrote: >> > > I don't have the ability to rev

Re: question about proprietary libraries

2010-09-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20100902092854.gr4...@vdg.blogsite.org>, Julien Viard de Galbert wrote: >Also I think I've read somewhere that no library really enter debian >unless a program requires it. (which kind of makes sense). I mentioned this in another thread. I'm not sure if it is policy. I was imagining a C lib

Re: question about proprietary libraries

2010-09-02 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 11:28:54AM +0200, Julien Viard de Galbert wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 05:03:40AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Hi there. > > > > On Sep 01 2010, Stephen Sinclair wrote: > > > I don't have the ability to reverse engineer it and write my own > > > drivers, but I'd stil

Re: question about proprietary libraries

2010-09-02 Thread Julien Viard de Galbert
On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 05:03:40AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > Hi there. > > On Sep 01 2010, Stephen Sinclair wrote: > > I don't have the ability to reverse engineer it and write my own > > drivers, but I'd still like users of this device to be able to make > > use of my software. > > Right. Yo

Re: question about proprietary libraries

2010-09-02 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there. On Sep 01 2010, Stephen Sinclair wrote: > I don't have the ability to reverse engineer it and write my own > drivers, but I'd still like users of this device to be able to make > use of my software. Right. You can dlopen the library, depending on the case. Your program will still be Fre

Re: question about proprietary libraries

2010-09-01 Thread Felipe Sateler
On 01/09/10 20:40, Stephen Sinclair wrote: > Hello, > > This is a general question about linking to proprietary libraries. > Specifically I am thinking about developing a library which will work > normally in the general case, but in some cases the user might have a > proprietary library installed

question about proprietary libraries

2010-09-01 Thread Stephen Sinclair
Hello, This is a general question about linking to proprietary libraries. Specifically I am thinking about developing a library which will work normally in the general case, but in some cases the user might have a proprietary library installed on their system, in which case I'd like to dynamically