RE: Including external libraries in GNU source

[Adam Fedor]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete French [mailto:pete@twisted.org.uk]
> 
> If, therefore, I want to base some code on it then all I can 
> think of doing
> is to include it in the GNUstep source tree. It was released 
> by HP under the
> LGPL so the lisence is compatible.
> 

The LGPL just means you can link to it without any license problems and since 
our project is also GPL/LGPL we "could" use the code. However, our current 
policy is that we have copyright for all contributions assigned to the FSF, so 
unfortunatly, it's unlikely we could use it. Depending on how you plan to use 
the library, it's possible we could optionally link it in via the configure 
script, though, we would rather not depend on an external library for core code.