From: hlu@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) Subject: Re: BBS Project -- Linux? Date: 16 Mar 1993 08:35:24 GMT
In article <1993Mar16.053715.22721@engr.uark.edu> hbj@engr.uark.edu (Bernard Johnson) writes:
>KID01 <mat@dsbc.icl.co.uk> writes:
>
>>In article <9303132002.AA14564@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu> STMQ%MARIST@VM.MARIST.EDU (Michael Quigley) writes:
>>>Dear Linuxers,
>>>
>>>I have been receiving a lot of nasty mail from people complaining about
>>>my BBS software being released commercially. The development group and I
>>>are now having reservations about releasing it for Linux. While I have
>>>been getting a lot of positive feedback, the good and bad feedback are
>>>not in a ratio that I would like to see.
>
>What compiler are you using? If GNU, don't you have to release it free with
>source code (assuming you link with GNU libs)? I have nothing against
>commercial efforts. I'm just curious.
>
Not if you link it with the shared library. Does anyone still use
the static binaries execept for a few things in /bin? In case of
the compability with the future shared library, you can do
ld -r -x -o foobar.a foo.o bar.o ........
Then you just need to provide foobar.a and a shell script:
---makefoobar--
#!/bin/sh
LDFLAGS="xxxxxxxx"
gcc -o foobar foobar.a ${LDFLAGS}
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You are home free. Am I right?
>Bernard Johnson
>hbj@engr.uark.edu
H.J.