---- START NEW MESSAGE --- Received: from cherry.ease.lsoft.com [209.119.0.109] by dpmail10.doteasy.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id AA1A1A500070; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:43:38 -0800 Received: from PEAR.EASE.LSOFT.COM (209.119.0.19) by cherry.ease.lsoft.com (LSMTP for Digital Unix v1.1b) with SMTP id <13.00CC06EC@cherry.ease.lsoft.com>; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 1:40:47 -0500 Received: from MITVMA.MIT.EDU by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8e) with spool id 2268 for PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 01:40:29 -0500 Received: from MITVMA (NJE origin SMTP@MITVMA) by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LMail V1.2d/1.8d) with BSMTP id 0395; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 01:39:59 -0500 Received: from sj-iport-4.cisco.com [171.68.10.86] by mitvma.mit.edu (IBM VM SMTP Level 430) via TCP with SMTP ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 01:39:58 EST X-Comment: mitvma.mit.edu: Mail was sent by sj-iport-4.cisco.com Received: from cisco.com (cypher.cisco.com [171.69.11.143]) by sj-core-4.cisco.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i0S6dwnG014804 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:39:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mac.com (sjc-vpn1-220.cisco.com [10.21.96.220]) by cisco.com (8.8.8/2.6/Cisco List Logging/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA22915 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:39:57 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:39:59 -0800 Reply-To: pic microcontroller discussion list Sender: pic microcontroller discussion list From: William Chops Westfield Subject: Re: [OT:] SCO lobbying Congress about Linux To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: <20040127170735.GB2221@cleon.cc.gatech.edu> Precedence: list X-RCPT-TO: Status: U X-UIDL: 371856037 On Tuesday, Jan 27, 2004, at 09:07 US/Pacific, Byron A Jeff wrote: > True. But as you well know that with the LGPL if you statically link, > you > still don't have to release the non library source. But you do have to > have a way for a user to relink the applications code to an updated > library. > And the current PIC tools can support this. Not if the PIC in your device is not reprogrammable and not replacable. Sure, I can ship a relocatable binary with my encapsulated blob of epoxy, at the expense of a lot of trouble and ... expense. But it doesn't do anyone any good. BillW -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics .