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+ website
+ Added Harbour website (except art, docs and stat subdirs)
; TODO: configure automatic mechanism to extract site from
here and regularly updload to sf.net web area
; TODO: Clean HTML code, remove unused picture/files, avoid JS
Any takers?
; NOTE: Please make modifications to website code only in
SVN, then upload the content to web server manually.
IOW never update on web server directly.
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HTML
48 lines
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HTML
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
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<HTML>
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<HEAD>
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<LINK REV="made" HREF="mailto:harbour-faq@netfang.net">
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<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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<TITLE>So why don't you use the LGPL?</TITLE>
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</HEAD>
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<BODY text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">
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<A HREF="harbour.html"><EM>Frequently Asked Questions about Harbour</EM></A>
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<b>:</b> <A HREF="harbour6.html"><EM>About Harbour</EM></A>
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<b>:</b> <EM>So why don't you use the LGPL?</EM><BR>
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<b>Previous:</b> <A HREF="harbour17.html"><EM>What is the Harbour exception?</EM></A><BR>
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<b>Next:</b> <A HREF="harbour19.html"><EM>Will my applications be affected by the GPL?</EM></A>
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<HR NOSHADE>
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<H2><A NAME="18"></A>2.12. So why don't you use the LGPL?</H2>
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<p>Given
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<A HREF="harbour17.html#HarbourException">the above</A> it might be reasonable to
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ask why the Harbour developers didn't elect to use the <A href="http://www.fsf.org/licenses/licenses.html#LGPL">LGPL</A> instead. The
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reason simply comes down to the requirements of the LGPL and what can be
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reasonably asked of anyone who wishes to make use of Harbour.</p>
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<p>The LGPL requires that any binary distribution of the LGPLd code (in other
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words, an application compiled with Harbour and linked against the HVM and
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RTL) should be distributed in a method that allows the user to re-link the
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application against different and/or later copies of the code under the
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LGPL. This is an unreasonable and unworkable requirement as far as the
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Harbour developers are concerned.</p>
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<p>For the most part it would be fine on platforms where an application can be
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linked against a dynamic version of the HVM and RTL, but any platform that
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doesn't support dynamic linking (PC/MS/DR/Open/Free-DOS for example) would
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be effectively shut out of Harbour usage. The Harbour developers consider
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this to be a reduction of freedom and this isn't acceptable for free
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software.</p>
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<HR NOSHADE>
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<A HREF="harbour.html"><EM>Frequently Asked Questions about Harbour</EM></A>
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<b>:</b> <A HREF="harbour6.html"><EM>About Harbour</EM></A>
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<b>:</b> <EM>So why don't you use the LGPL?</EM><BR>
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<b>Previous:</b> <A HREF="harbour17.html"><EM>What is the Harbour exception?</EM></A><BR>
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<b>Next:</b> <A HREF="harbour19.html"><EM>Will my applications be affected by the GPL?</EM></A>
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</BODY>
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</HTML>
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