Re: Releasing software with a GTK front end

["Nils O." Selåsdal <noselasd frisurf no>]

On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 08:26, Frank Naumann wrote:
> Hello!
>
> > > 5. You have to use the dynamic version - static linking is prohibited
> >
> > You can static link, but it means you need to make your own code
> > available too.
>
> For LGPL it don't matter if you link statically or dynamically, at least I 
> understand it so.
Not afaik, see LGPL Section 6a.

Poking around a bit seems it's a common understanding that the user
must be able to change the library itself, with dynamically
linking this is ok, as you can replace shared libraries without
affecting the program(technically, ofcourse, you have to retain the
ABI). If statically linking the object files or source code must
be released so the user can relink the program so it can make use of a
changed library.