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Re: Code reformatter added to TheIDE [message #13859 is a reply to message #13857]

Wed, 30 January 2008 11:24

mdelfede
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zsolt wrote on Wed, 30 January 2008 11:04

seems to be promising. My only problem is license of astyle. It's LGPL, so it should be compiled as a dll or so.

Well, that's not for sure.... In LGPL license is stated that :

6. As an exception to the Sections above, you may also combine or
link a "work that uses the Library" with the Library to produce a
work containing portions of the Library, and distribute that work
under terms of your choice, provided that the terms permit
modification of the work for the customer's own use and reverse
engineering for debugging such modifications.

We're modifying the source code and publishing it on terms of LGPL, we're distributing a work containing portions of the library with a license that allow access to source code of the derivative product, so I think that Theide falls in such a case.... But we'd need a lawer to be sure about that Smile

BTW, it would be no problem to make a shared library of astyle, but imo it makes few sense.

Ciao

Max

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