LGPL+ex? [was: Re: where do stack traces get filled in?]

Wed Dec 12 23:31:00 GMT 2001

Bryce McKinlay <bryce@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> writes:
> As for running c++filt to demangle symbols, I agree this is nasty/wrong 
> but we can't link libiberty because it is LGPL.

While we're all pretending to be lawyers... =)
What do you guys think about LGPL+ex? I've been using it and I'm
curious to know if there's any disadvantages I'm unaware of.
 from http://www.xwt.org/tinyssl/ :
 TinySSL is Copyright (C) 2001 Adam Megacz all rights reserved. You
 may modify, copy, and redistribute this code under the terms of the
 GNU Library Public License version 2.1, with the exception of the
 portion of clause 6a after the semicolon (aka the "obnoxious relink
 clause")
I figured that I wanted to leverage the lawyer-dollars that the FSF
has put into creating a lawyer/judge-friendly distinction between
"modifying a library" and "linking with a library".
 - a