Re: [DotGNU]Licensing

[Charles Shuller]

address@hidden wrote:
> You wrote:
>
>
> > Can GPL and LGPL software be included in Pnetlib??
>
>
> Pnetlib is the replacement or standard .NET library
> Portable.Net has ... It has to reach ECMA compatibility
> as well as aproach a similar API to .NET SDK
>
> We usually do not add software programs to pnetlib,
> because it is kept as minimal and ECMA compliant as
> possible.
>
> So please rephrase the idea and tell us what the mystery
> software is :-)

At the time, I was specifically wondering how to implement the 
System.IO.Delete method, and decided that doing whatever rm -r and GLIBC 
does would probably be a good idea.  I wasn't sure if this would create 
any licensing conflicts because of the exception in pnelib version of 
the GPL, even though one is in C and the other in CSharp.

In the course of figuring out where system dependant code DID go, I 
discovered the internal methods, and that I could in fact, just use the 
C library to make low-level calls, and NOT in fact have to use anything 
remotely like syscall(), which seems to move the question from the 
practical to the theoretic, as well as make me a much happier person :)

So there is no radical idea about embedding other software into an 
already quite well defined library :)

--Charles