From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15757 invoked by alias); 22 May 2003 17:40:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact pthreads-win32-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: pthreads-win32-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 15122 invoked from network); 22 May 2003 17:40:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO atlrel6.hp.com) (156.153.255.205) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 22 May 2003 17:40:03 -0000 Received: from harbour.india.hp.com (harbour.india.hp.com [15.76.114.31]) by atlrel6.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBC9C1C01E55; Thu, 22 May 2003 13:40:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from india.hp.com (akshara.india.hp.com [15.76.115.122]) by harbour.india.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_17190)/8.8.6 SMKit7.02) id XAA26046; Thu, 22 May 2003 23:29:51 +0530 (IST) Message-ID: <3ECD0C45.10509@india.hp.com> Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 17:40:00 -0000 From: Vinaya Kumar T Reply-To: vkt@india.hp.com Organization: Hewlett Packard India Software Operations Private Ltd. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; HP-UX 9000/785; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020827 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Turner, Jay" Cc: pthreads-win32@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: LGPL and a proprietary application References: <0A4834C63AA59242BD8A4C9CF8494E29FF46A7@sghdqms02.global.ad.sabre.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003/txt/msg00052.txt.bz2 Hello Jay, ru linking to this LGPL library statically or dynamically...?? if statically linked ,then u should make only that of the ur src code open ,so that , changes in LGPL can be done effectively. On other hand ,if it dynamically linked,then u don't have to worry about ur src code to be made open. hope this helps vinaya Turner, Jay wrote: >In reading the LGPL for pthreads-win32 I find I am confused. My application is company proprietary and one reading says that an application that "uses the library" does not itself fall under the LGPL. Another reading says that it does (mainly because it uses pthread.h and semaphore.h). > >Can I link to pthreads-win32 in my application without the license requiring that I provide my source or object code to my customers? > >Is there anything that my legal department would accept that would confirm this? > >Thanks, Jay > > > >