Re: Propriate application distribution and GTK+ dlls.

[Robert Moonen <rmoonen bigpond net au>]

Alex Chardash wrote:

Alex, I do wish you'd fix your mail agent, it's really messing things 
up, I repaired your previous post before replying, however not this time.
> Robert,
>
> I'm not really sure about that.
>
> In other sections of LGPL, act of sharing sources is always reffered
> explicitly.
>
> Considering the LGPL preamble, these terms seems to be talking about the
> case
> of switching dll's.*
> *
>
> *> Most GNU software, including some libraries, is covered by the ordinary
> GNU
>   
> > General Public License. This license, the GNU Lesser General Public
> >     
> License,
>   
> > applies to certain designated libraries, and is quite different from the
> >     
> ordinary
>   
> > General Public License. We use this license for certain libraries in order
> >     
> to permit
>   
> > linking those libraries into non-free programs. *
> >     
>
> *> When a program is linked with a library, whether statically or using a
> shared library,
>   
> > the combination of the two is legally speaking a combined work, a
> >     
> derivative of the
>   
> > original library. The ordinary General Public License therefore permits
> >     
> such linking
>   
> > only if the entire combination fits its criteria of freedom. The Lesser
> >     
> General Public
>   
> > License permits more lax criteria for linking other code with the library.
> >     
> *
> * > We call this license the "Lesser" General Public License because it does
> Less to
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> > protect the user's freedom than the ordinary General Public License. [...]
> >     
>
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> > Although the Lesser General Public License is Less protective of the
> >     
> users' freedom,
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> > it does ensure that the user of a program that is linked with the Library
> >     
> has the freedom
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> > and the wherewithal to run that program using a modified version of the
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> Library.
> *
> Thanks,
> - Alex.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Robert Moonen <rmoonen bigpond net au>wrote:
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>   
> > Alex Chardash wrote:
> >
> >     
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>   

Well, someone I know just received some programs(windows) he bought from 
the US today and one of them uses the GTK libraries, so it seems it is OK.

> >  As an exception to the Sections above, you may also combine or link a
> >     
> > > "work that uses the Library" with the Library to produce a work containing
> > > portions of the Library, and distribute that work under terms of your
> > > choice, provided that the terms permit modification of the work for the
> > > customer's own use and reverse engineering for debugging such modifications.
> > >
> > >
> > >       
> > This excerpt of the license condition, suggests that the source code must
> > be provided to the customer in this situation.
> >
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Robert
> >
> >     
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