Re: XChat seems to be ignoring the LGPL

[Todd Fisher <toddf simosoftware com>]

Sean Egan wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:00:20 -0400 (GMT-04:00), Taybin Rutkin
> <taybin earthlink net> wrote:
>  
>
> > Just out of curiousity, are those conditions AND or OR?
> >    
>
> AND.  If it weren't statically linked, the shared object files would
> need to be distributed.
>
> I read this when the license was first changed:
>
> "Silverex explains about the differences between the XChat windows
> build, and his: 'zed compiles gtk+ libraries into xchat.exe executable
> itself, mine uses gtk+ runtime environment, which many gtk+ for
> windows applications can share. thus, one can change gtk themes on my
> build. there are also several other minor differences. zed can and is
> able to hack gtk+ so it would look better, I'm stuck with official gtk
> sources, which lack some features.'
>  
Actually, I downloaded the xchat in question, very neat how small he got 
the gtk runtime, But it does not appear
he did anything other then apply some patches such as 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148535.
It also looks like he used a modified .def file, which can be easily 
reproduced using pexports minigtk.dll > minigtk.def
Perhaps, there is something else he did not sure to get minigtk.dll to 
be so small?  But really it just appears as if he
applied one patch and was smart about how he linked gtk+.  Would have 
been nice of him  to include in his source
release makefiles, and maybe a list of the patches he applied.

> "Zed asked Silverex to move his website from the XChat.org domain, and
> the domain is now disabled."
>
> That would imply that it is statically compiled.  I can't say whether
> or not object files are included.
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