From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15014 invoked by alias); 19 Sep 2009 01:51:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 15005 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Sep 2009 01:51:19 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from s194.n227.vds2000.com (HELO pioneerwireless.ca) (64.6.227.194) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:51:15 +0000 Received: (qmail 23484 invoked by uid 48); 18 Sep 2009 21:51:13 -0400 Received: from 24.139.16.66 ([24.139.16.66]) by webmail.pioneerwireless.ca (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:51:13 -0400 Message-ID: <20090918215113.uz6xygu9gc8gg0s4@webmail.pioneerwireless.ca> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:51:00 -0000 From: "John E. Bossom" To: pthreads-win32@sourceware.org Subject: Re: LGPL question References: <54b165660909181558v56d9aa96y175fb098920a10f2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <54b165660909181558v56d9aa96y175fb098920a10f2@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.6) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact pthreads-win32-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009/txt/msg00050.txt.bz2 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 : > 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 >