Re: [Mono-dev] Using Mono Assemblies under terms of LGPL

2010-03-03 Thread Jacques Beaurain
Hi, Thanks for the response but this does not solve my issue... On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Jonathan Pryor jonpr...@vt.edu wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 12:21 -0500, Jacques Beaurain wrote: ...  The issue that we face is that this assembly is not signed and we need to be able to place the

Re: [Mono-dev] Using Mono Assemblies under terms of LGPL

2010-03-03 Thread Robert Jordan
Hi, On 03.03.2010 11:44, Jacques Beaurain wrote: YOU have sources and a compiler toolchain. If you need a strong-named assembly, fold it into your own assemblies and strong name *those*, so that responsibility for maintaining API compatibility is clear. This is exactly the issue, the

Re: [Mono-dev] Using Mono Assemblies under terms of LGPL

2010-03-03 Thread Rafael Teixeira
For starters some background info: http://www.mono-project.com/I18nGettext -- Show how to use GetText# which exposes an Gnu.GetText namespace and thus presumably should package such a Gnu.GetText.dll as discussed in this thread. Perusing the released sources of gettext (gettext-0.17.tar.gz),

Re: [Mono-dev] Using Mono Assemblies under terms of LGPL

2010-03-03 Thread Jacques Beaurain
Hi, Thanks for all the replies. Signing the assembly and making the private/public key available was one option we were considering, but I think the final and easiest solution is writing our own assembly with native interop to libintl. Interestingly the gettext documentation does not state the

Re: [Mono-dev] Using Mono Assemblies under terms of LGPL

2010-03-03 Thread Jonathan Pryor
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 10:16 -0500, Jacques Beaurain wrote: I think the final and easiest solution is writing our own assembly with native interop to libintl. We already have such a thing: Mono.Unix.Catalog, in Mono.Posix.dll, which is MIT/X11 licensed (no LGPL worries) and is already

[Mono-dev] Using Mono Assemblies under terms of LGPL

2010-03-02 Thread Jacques Beaurain
Hi All, We are looking at using one of the assemblies from the Mono release under the terms of the LGPL license in a commercial closed source application. My understanding is that this is allowed as long as we do not modify the compiled assembly in any way. The issue that we face is that this

Re: [Mono-dev] Using Mono Assemblies under terms of LGPL

2010-03-02 Thread Jonathan Pryor
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 12:21 -0500, Jacques Beaurain wrote: ... The issue that we face is that this assembly is not signed and we need to be able to place the assembly in the GAC of Microsoft Windows systems. What is the recommended way to handle this situation? In particular we are