Re: gtkmm application redistribution

["Jonathon Jongsma" <jonathon jongsma gmail com>]

On 5/8/07, angelo <angelo70 gmail com> wrote:
> I've developed a visual application using gtkmm and i would like to
> redistribute both the windows and linux packages. I'm looking for some
> suggestions on how to prepare the package,  expecially for the linux
> distributions. I've tought, if is possible, to link all the libraries
> statically, and to prepare some kind of package.run, just for user
> facility, but i don't know if it's a good strategy, since i've seen many
> time the source distribution (config, automake etc). And anyway, i don't
> know how to start so any help/link/documentation on it is really
> appreciated.

Note that if you want to link libraries statically, you have to be
very sure that the license allows it.  gtkmm for instance is licensed
as LGPL, which allows non-free software to link it dynamically without
requiring that the source of the application be GPL.  However, I
believe linking statically is not allowed unless the application
itself is licensed under GPL/LGPL.  I'm not a lawyer, so I might be
slightly wrong here, but my point is that static linking of LGPL
libraries introduces some legal issues that you have to make sure that
you can satisfy.

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jonner