on Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 08:41:46PM -0600, Mike Crawford (mike at tuxnami.org) wrote:
> I seem to have a licensing problem thiat is really giving me a headache.
>
> I want to port SDL, which is licensed under the LGPL, to QTe's display
> methods (QTe is the embedded QT library by TrollTech). QTe is under the
> GPL.
>
> I don't think I can directly link SDL to QTe because of the GPL, but I'd
> like to know if I can use shared memory, Unix domain sockets, or some
> other IPC to communicate between the two libraries.
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