Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Sharing classes (was C++ LIBRARY/TOOL SURVEY)
Message-ID: <1989Mar6.183352.3513@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Feb27.090941.18193@LTH.Se> <2491@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <7101@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <8688@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 89 18:33:52 GMT

In article <8688@paris.ics.uci.edu> Doug Schmidt <schmidt@siam.ics.uci.edu> writes:
>...As
>far as finding a *large* collection of C++ library code and useful
>(and well documented) class abstractions, check out the GNU libg++
>library...  And the price is right... ;-)

The price is not right for many commercial users -- the price is acceptance
of the GNU licensing terms.  One may argue about the intrinsic rightness of
the licensing terms, but the fact is that they're unacceptable to many
commercial organizations today.
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