RE: [syslog-ng]libol license?
Bazsi, Thanks for your reply. It's interesting that you'd use the GPL instead of the LGPL for libol. GPL for libraries will "infect" any code that links to it, forcing it to be GPL as well. Any particular motivation for that? I'm also wondering if there's any documentation (english) for libol - I don't see any on your site. This site (http://www.usinglinux.org/devel/libol.html) is the 3rd link on Google when searching for "libol documentation". I'm trying to hunt down how signals are handled for childen of syslog-ng and it's a blurry line where syslog-ng ends and libol begins (this is related to the other thread about sec.pl). Any info you might have would be helpful. Thanks again, Tony -- "Computer science is as much about computers as astronomy is about telescopes" -- Edsger Dijkstra --------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Tonns, UNIX Administrator - atonns@mail.ivillage.com
-----Original Message----- From: Balazs Scheidler [mailto:bazsi@balabit.hu] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 12:21 PM To: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu Subject: Re: [syslog-ng]libol license?
2004-04-29, cs keltezéssel 20:40-kor atonns@mail.ivillage.com ezt írta:
No, it is under the GPL, not LGPL.
I've comitted a COPYING file. The source file headers reference the GPL properly.
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2004-04-30, p keltezéssel 19:33-kor atonns@mail.ivillage.com ezt írta:
Bazsi,
Thanks for your reply. It's interesting that you'd use the GPL instead of the LGPL for libol. GPL for libraries will "infect" any code that links to it, forcing it to be GPL as well. Any particular motivation for that?
libol was derived from lsh http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/lsh And lsh is GPLd as well. I've tried to make libol a bit more general than the original code in lsh, though the fact that libol is only used by syslog-ng certainly does not help, nor the fact that I don't have too much time devoted to syslog-ng.
I'm also wondering if there's any documentation (english) for libol - I don't see any on your site. This site (http://www.usinglinux.org/devel/libol.html) is the 3rd link on Google when searching for "libol documentation". I'm trying to hunt down how signals are handled for childen of syslog-ng and it's a blurry line where syslog-ng ends and libol begins (this is related to the other thread about sec.pl). Any info you might have would be helpful.
lsh has a file named "HACKING" it contains some information about the framework libol provides. However the 1.9.x branch of syslog-ng is now independent of libol, the main reason being that the framework provided by libol might be a bit 'cryptic' to somebody who only understands C (and not scheme), especially the continuation part. libol does not have signal handling, it is done in syslog-ng's main.c file, more exactly the sig_child() function. -- Bazsi PGP info: KeyID 9AF8D0A9 Fingerprint CD27 CFB0 802C 0944 9CFD 804E C82C 8EB1
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