[bf1942] Statically linked version to be dropped--licensing

Jon Torrez jon at bordergatewayprotocol.net
Tue Aug 5 03:27:05 EDT 2003


Would it be possible to sell a staticly linked binary?

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Andreas Fredriksson wrote:

| Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 09:23:49 +0200
| From: Andreas Fredriksson <andreas.fredriksson at dice.se>
| Reply-To: "bf1942 at icculus.org" <bf1942 at icculus.org>
| To: "'bf1942 at icculus.org '" <bf1942 at icculus.org>
| Subject: RE: [bf1942] Statically linked version to be dropped--licensing
|
| My BF port requires the GCC 3.2 compiler and its c++ libraries to compile,
| I don't think any older versions would work.
|
| So unfortunately users will be required to use a very up-to-date Linux
| installation to run the server. There's not much I can do at this point.
|
| // Andreas
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Jasper Jans
| To: bf1942 at icculus.org
| Sent: 8/5/2003 9:16 AM
| Subject: Re: [bf1942] Statically linked version to be dropped--licensing
|
| Andreas,
|
| Would it then be possible to provide a dynamically linked version
| against the somewhat older version of glibc? That way it should not
| be a problem in my opinion.
|
|   - Jasper
|
| Andreas Fredriksson [andreas.fredriksson at dice.se] wrote:
|
| > If anyone has more insight into this it would be most welcome, but it
| > looks like the statically linked version is gone from now on.
|
| --
|



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