[Scummvm-devel] Re: Question to porters..

[Ruediger Hanke]

Hi J.Brown,

> Do any of our current (or future) platforms NOT support some form of
> dynamic linkage?

MorphOS is basically capable of dynamic linking, problem is, the linker
doesn't support it yet. I'd have to do dynamic linking "by hand". I'll
have to ask the MorphOS folks if they have done something about the
linker ...

> We may be changing licenses shortly, which would mean some parts of the
> engine (particually the adlib code....) will need to be spun off into an
> LGPL'ed library, or if we cannot dynamically link (as obviously static
> linking between LGPL'ed and non-GPL'ed code is a no-no) rewritten.

Are you sure? I think it's allowed to statically link LGPL and non-GPL
code, if you provide the LGPL parts as source and the non-GPL parts
as object files that can be relinked together with possibly changed
LGPL-sources into a new binary.

Rüdiger
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