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From: Brian Cole <coleb2@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:58:00 -0000
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Subject: LGPL question
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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