[sldev] Re: APR

[Argent Stonecutter]

> On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 19:11 -0500, Argent Stonecutter wrote:
>> Not being GPL-compatible shouldn't be a problem, because LL includes
>> an exception for FOSS.

> Except that still doesn't allow us to link to GPL libraries or  
> merge in
> any GPL code. (Like the CPU detection stuff from the Linux kernel, for
> use on non-linux platforms...)

That's the point. It's not "GPL-compatible" that's an issue for the  
SL client, because the FOSS exception makes it non-GPL-compatible  
itself.

This is why GPL libraries are a problem. Especially since GPL3 and  
GPL2 aren't compatible.

The CPU detection stuff, though, isn't a problem. Just create a GPLed  
command line tool that does CPU detection and reports the result.  
There's no reason SL has to be linked with a tool like that that's  
only run once during initialization.