Re: apache.make

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Tuesday, November 28, 2000, at 05:44 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     As a first step, I wrote an extension to the GNUstep make package which 
>     allows to write GNUstep-based Apache modules.  It is quite simple, being 
>     composed of a single apache.make file to be included in the GNUmakefile. 
>  
> How does Apache communicate with a module?  Is it by linking, 
> or by fork-and-exec?  A subsequent message suggests that Apache 
> links them dynamically. 
>  
> If these modules are linked with Apache, and if they also need to link 
> in GNUstep libraries, this raises a legal issue.  The Apache license 
> is incompatible with the GNU GPL. 
>  
> I don't remember which license the GNUstep libraries use; could you 
> tell me?  If they use the GPL, they can't be linked with Apache.  If 
> they use the LGPL or another license that permits linking with 
> everything, then there is no obstacle. 

GNUstep uses LGPL (except for a few command-line utilities etc that are GPL).
Ceertainly all the libraries and similar code are LGPL