Re: [DotGNU]Changing pnetlib license to LGPL

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BioChem333 wrote:
> I'm not sure you understand the problem. The LGPL has a loophole which
> could cause all of pnetlib to be modified and released in object code
> only, with only the interface being left free and under the LGPL. This
> essentially eliminates all protections provided by the LGPL for the
> library.

Well, that's not really a problem in LGPL; it is an implementation detail.

pnetlib does not provide native method implementations; it is expected 
that when the Common Language Runtime hits a native-marked method, the 
runtime itself will provide it. So it's not so much a deal of linkage, 
it is that you are just reading data (the interface) from pnetlib and 
using that to make an internal call in the runtime.

So LGPL means that someone could write a proprietary runtime, including 
proprietary InternalCall implementations, or modify pnetlib as such, so 
that it would require proprietary software. the GPL+LE closes this 
`loophole'.

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