From: "John E. Bossom" <drifting@pioneerwireless.ca>
To: pthreads-win32@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: LGPL question
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:51:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090918215113.uz6xygu9gc8gg0s4@webmail.pioneerwireless.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54b165660909181558v56d9aa96y175fb098920a10f2@mail.gmail.com>
The license terms of the LGPL revert to GPL in the event that the
library is distributed in a static form. GPL is "viral" in nature,
compelling you to
release your own source as well.
Quoting Brian Cole <coleb2@gmail.com>:
> There is a debate in our office about the LGPL. We ship all our
> applications statically linked, but we are a commercial closed source
> entity. Are we allowed to use a statically linked LGPL library like
> pthreads-win32? Or are we forced to use it in a shared library
> capacity?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
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2009-09-18 22:58 Brian Cole
2009-09-19 1:51 ` John E. Bossom [this message]
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