Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 14:29:54 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LGPL confusion Message-ID: <19980928142954.22124@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.02A.9809281050130.20593-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au>; from Nicholas Charles Brawn on Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 11:00:58AM %2B1000 References: <Pine.SOL.4.02A.9809281050130.20593-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au>
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On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 11:00:58AM +1000, Nicholas Charles Brawn wrote: > 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. This is _almost_ the case. You have to release object files for your "work that uses the library", and you have to release source code if you have a direct derivative work (ie, you do changes to GTK itself). Shared library technology does probably not release you from the requirement to release object files. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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