[Ecls-list] License question

[Julian Stecklina]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:54:04 +0200
"Goffioul Michael" <goffioul at imec.be> wrote:

> I know ECL is under LGPL and that I can distribute LISP code in binary
> format, even linked against ECL library. My current (internal) use of
> ECL is to build ECL into a static lib and use this lib to build a MEX
> file for MATLAB such that ECL is embedded into that MEX file (easier
> for me as I only have to distribute a single DLL). Is this static
> embedding allowed by LGPL?

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Regards,
-- 
Julian Stecklina

Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: "Any sufficiently complicated C
or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden
slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."