Re: LGPL

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Marcus Brubaker wrote:

> Unless I'm mistaken, I think the problem he is having here is that the
> LGPL allows dynamic linking with uncompatible licenses, but he needs to do
> static linking, which is disallowed via the LGPL.

It's not disallowed - you just have to provide a way for the user to link
the executable with a different version of the library that uses the same
ABI. The typical way of doing this is to provide a .o file and linking
instructions.

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