Re: Licensing

[Douglas Ian Linder <linderdi cs curtin edu au>]

Read the historical discussion in the archives. Summary:

- Distribute the libraries to use (eg. gtk, etc) as standard packages,
  including source is fine.

- Linking with those libraries at run time (ie. do not compile them into
  your application. Normal way of doing things) is fine.

- Place any terms and conditions you like on your application provided
  "the terms permit modification of the work for the customer's own use 
   and reverse engineering for debugging such modifications."
  (ie. You cannot place "you may not reverse engineer this" or 
       "you may not modify this" in the T&C for your program.)

- Your program is then "work that uses the Library". Sell it, distribute
  it, copyright it. Do what ever you want with it. The LGPL doesn't care.
  Your program is NOT under LPGL, or GPL. It is under some other terms
  and conditions (consistant with the above) of your choice.

- You are under no obligation to distribute any LGPL material at all.
  You may simply reference places people can obtains the relevant 
  packages required to use the programs.

ciao,
Doug.