[Qt-interest] [OT] RE: LGPL and static linking

[Oliver.Knoll at comit.ch]

Thiago Macieira wrote on Tuesday, December 01, 2009 1:43 PM:

> ...
> "There is debate in the legal and open source communities [...] under the LGPL version 2.1.
> [...] inconsistency in the LGPL license [...]  "a work based on the Library" [...]  work under 
> copyright law [...] legal jurisdictional point of view [...] open to interpretation [...] considered
> a derivative work [...] in Sections 1, 2, and 4 of [...] refer to Sections 5 and 6(a) of 
> [...] Section 5 specifically acknowledges that [...] However, the language in Section 5 gives 
> some indications [...] accordance with Section 6. [...] inconsistency within the license. [...]
> able to accomplish our licensing goals without subjecting the open source community [...]."

Gosh! Is this really what lawyers do all day long? ;) Is there a debugger or compiler to render this into human understandable language? (How I /love/ shuffling words around :)

I am so happy to be a programmer and rather deal with "application state inconsistencies", "dereferencing null-pointers", "stack overflow", "memory mis-alignments", "segmentation faults"... totally clear and not left to interpretations.

Oh and yes, "Unexpected exception 0x400002, please refer to chapter 4, 'Unexpected, yet documented error codes', section 2, subsection 5 of the application handbook, Vol. 4,"...

;)

Cheers,
  Oliver
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Oliver Knoll
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