From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 28 05:30:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA02306 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 05:30:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA02301 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 05:30:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA27582; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 14:29:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id OAA23871; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 14:29:55 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980928142954.22124@follo.net> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 14:29:54 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Nicholas Charles Brawn , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LGPL confusion References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Nicholas Charles Brawn on Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 11:00:58AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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