Re: APR/NSPR

[John Keiser]

Just to point out, Japhar actually uses NSPR.  Unfortunately, I am not
sure if GPL+exception is compatible with the GPL--if we try to link our
lib with the GPL, are we violating the terms of *its* license?

I don't know much about APR, but I suspect we're totally fine using that
one with its license.

--John


On 26 Jul 2001 22:55:17 -0400, Brian Jones wrote:
> I've been thinking about portability and wondering to myself whether
> or not we can use one of now two different packages that insulate
> software from the quirks of various platforms by providing a fairly
> consistent sort of libc-like API for file io, network, threads, etc.
> 
> The first and oldest of these is NSPR, which seems to be used
> extensively by Netscape/Sun for Mozilla, IPlanet, etc.  The second,
> APR, is fairly new and part of Apache 2.0.  NSPR is covered by the MPL
> and GPL while APR is covered by the usual Apache license.
> 
> It seems using these libraries would be worth something for increasing
> portability.  Is it possible, given our license, to use either?  Would
> using one of these be difficult for the user base to deal with due to
> the additional license?
> 
> Brian
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