Re: Libpropc++

[Roel Vanhout <roel riks nl>]

Marco Scholten wrote:
> With your interpretation, what is the difference between LGPL and GPL
> in the case of gtkmm?

That the LGPL puts your whole program under LGPL because of a 
technicality (the use of templates), while the GPL would put it under 
the GPL regardless of which way you use the code. Eg if you could 
separate your business code from the gui code, using a shared library or 
COM or whateven other code separation mechanism you want to use, you 
could use gtkmm as it is now (LGPL) but not if it were GPL. There are 
other differences: note that you could probably comply with the LGPL 
with careful code organization and the use of certain coding techniques 
(eg pimpl idiom) combined with providing object code of your code. The 
GPL requires the 'preferred form', ie yet-to-be-compiled source code. 
But in both cases that does require a major engineering effort, only for 
license compliance.

cheers,

roel