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Wednesday, October 5th 2005, 7:28am

LGPL with Commercial Apps?

Can I link LGPL code with a commercial app and have the commercial app sold as a non-opensource product?

Naturally keeping and referring the the LGPL project... etc.

Can somebody please spell this out for me in plain english?

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Wednesday, October 5th 2005, 8:25am

RE: LGPL with Commercial Apps?

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Wednesday, October 5th 2005, 11:12am

RE: LGPL with Commercial Apps?

eh eh eh yup, figured that out from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGPL
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Wednesday, October 5th 2005, 2:46pm

But you still need to be able to deliver the sources of the LGPL library on request.

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Wednesday, October 5th 2005, 2:54pm

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Originally posted by anda_skoa
But you still need to be able to deliver the sources of the LGPL library on request.

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You can bundle them with your application, right? Or provide a link to it?
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Wednesday, October 5th 2005, 6:11pm

Of course you can deliver them with your bundle, but AFAIK you also have to be able to deliver it any third party requesting it.

So to play save I'd rather have the source archive of the respective LGPL library somewhere for download or linked to a public mirror if it is not altered.

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Thursday, October 6th 2005, 6:55am

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So to play save I'd rather have the source archive of the respective LGPL library somewhere for download or linked to a public mirror if it is not altered.


I would surely keep a copy as maybe in the future the project runs 'dead' and I just might have to fix some obscure bug that only comes out ages later... as it goes with software ;)
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