Re: [Linux-ha-dev] thoughts about library naming conventions

2006-08-30 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2006-08-29T13:36:41, Alan Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The point of renaming them *gpl is that it would be impossible to accidentally link against one. Therefore anyone who is doing it, knew perfectly well what they were doing when they did it. I'm not a lawyer, but legally

Re: [Linux-ha-dev] thoughts about library naming conventions

2006-08-24 Thread Alan Robertson
Keisuke MORI wrote: Alan Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthew Soffen wrote: I don't see it being any problem. Is there any convention that other projects use ? Not that I know of. I just thought this might make things clearer to those who want to link to our libraries - which ones

[Linux-ha-dev] thoughts about library naming conventions

2006-08-23 Thread Alan Robertson
Hi, I've been thinking about our conventions for naming libraries. It seems to me to be somewhat confusing for the novice to tell which libraries of ours are GPL and which are LGPL. So, I had an idea I'd like some feedback on. How about if we named all our GPLed libraries libxxxgpl instead of

Re: [Linux-ha-dev] thoughts about library naming conventions

2006-08-23 Thread Alan Robertson
Matthew Soffen wrote: I don't see it being any problem. Is there any convention that other projects use ? Not that I know of. I just thought this might make things clearer to those who want to link to our libraries - which ones are under which license. For those who are linking to our GPLed