From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Sep 27 18:01:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA21655 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 18:01:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from banshee.cs.uow.edu.au (banshee.cs.uow.edu.au [130.130.188.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA21618 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 18:01:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ncb05@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au) Received: (from ncb05@localhost) by banshee.cs.uow.edu.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id LAA26824; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 11:00:58 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 11:00:58 +1000 (EST) From: Nicholas Charles Brawn X-Sender: ncb05@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: LGPL confusion Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I was going through the licence file included in the gtk 1.0.6 distribution, and discovered that gtk is distributed under the lgpl. >From my limited understanding, with the gpl, you MUST release derivative works with source, though the lgpl has been modified to allow you to release binary only derivative works. Is this the case? Could someone more familiar with the lgpl please clarify it for me. Cheers, Nick -- Email: ncb@poboxes.com - http://www.poboxes.com/ncb Key fingerprint = DE 30 33 D3 16 91 C8 8D A7 F8 70 03 B7 77 1A 2A "When in doubt, ask someone wiser than yourself..." -unknown To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message