Re: Dutch Tax software violates the LGPL (Glib/GTK+)

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 01/05/2010 08:18 PM, Brian Cameron wrote:
> > 1) it is acceptable if a software as widely used as tax software can use
> > statically Glib/GTK+ libraries for 'compatibility' issues. It is
> > mentioned that the library is not 'changed'.
>
> Yes, this sounds acceptable.

Brian, the key term here is "statically".  That is in conflict with section 6 
of LGPL 2.1:

  6. As an exception to the Sections above, you may also compile or
link a "work that uses the Library" with the Library to produce a
work containing portions of the Library, and distribute that work
under terms of your choice, provided that the terms permit
modification of the work for the customer's own use and reverse
engineering for debugging such modifications.


If the "work" is distributed as shared libraries, it can be modified by the 
customer.  Not so true for statically linked libraries.

behdad