Re: [ossig] GPL & LGPL

[Imran William Smith <iwsmith@xxxxxxxx>]

> Dinesh Nair wrote:
> if your library is linked to GPLed code, you have to release your library
> under the GPL. it would then follow that anything else which links to your
> library will also need to be GPL. now, if you found a LGPL library to link
> to instead of a GPL library, you wouldn't have this problem. LPGL was
> created specifically to address these problems of libraries being linked
> in.
> 
I agree.  Your other alternative is to discuss with the author
of the GPL library (if there is a single author) whether he/she
is interested to release that library under LGPL as well, giving
you the option to use it in LGPL form, or whether he/she could
otherwise add an exclusion clause allowing you to use it.

They could charge you for that ... the dual licensing business model :)


Imran

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