Re: Overused OO: was Requesting Suggestions for intermediate/advanced book on Lua

[Steve Litt <slitt@...>]

On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 10:34:14 -0400
"D. Matt Placek" <atomicsuntan@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Steve Litt
> <slitt@troubleshooters.com>wrote:
> 
> > Does clang come with its own libraries, and are they *not* GPL, so
> > that one can use C on Linux to create proprietary programs?
> >
> > Unlike Stallman, I believe there's a place in this world for both
> > Free and Proprietary software, and it should be the author's choice
> > which way to go, and yet using GCC I can't legally make proprietary
> > software.
> >
> 
> This is not correct.  The core C libraries are either LGPL or eg for
> C++ template code their are special exemptions.  The GNU tools are
> fine for proprietary code.

LGPL is plenty bad enough. It becomes my problem to make sure the
customer can compile my stuff.

Thanks,

SteveT

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