[Pipet Devel] GPL/LGPL issues

[J.W. Bizzaro]

Jean-Marc Valin wrote:
> 
> It's not as simple as that. You can link a closed-source program with an LGPL
> library, but whether you can link the library (libdata-flow) to a closed source
> plugin (library) is unclear. Remember that although libkdeui was LGPL, you still
> couldn't link it to Qt when it was QPL (at least not within the KDE context).

You can link a program to a closed-source library if you specifically permit
it.  The problem with KDE was that they never specifically permitted linking
to Qt.

Jeff
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J.W. Bizzaro                                           jeff at bioinformatics.org
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