Re: GTKmm for research/commercial use

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 23:07 +0100, Riccardo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My name is Riccardo Lucchese. I'm a student at the Universit�egli 
> Studi di Padova in Italy.
> We are projecting the development of a new software for humanoid robots 
> movements design.
> 
> I'have got a very briefe question: we want to close our source for 
> competitive reasons and then sell it to support our laboratory; I have 
> read the LGPL license but still something is not clear: at the moment I 
> very basically inherit, for example, GTK::Window to create a customized 
> window for my application, don't a brake the license if i close the 
> source[as my derived class is actually a GTKmm class with some tunes]?

if your customers can do what is described in the LGPL, you will not be
breaking the license terms. at its simplest, this means that they must
be able to run your application with their own version of gtkmm, or you
must publish any required changes to gtkmm and allow them to recompile
it.