Open Source Licence (LGPL or GPL)

Ray G. Miller rgmiller at pacbell.net
Tue Sep 9 15:33:00 EDT 2003


From: Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>


> David Bovill wrote:
> 
> 
>>The simple 
>>story is to use the LGPL if you may wish to distribute the open source
>>code with 'linked' libraries (read IDE or engine here) which is not GPL'd.
> 
> 
> Hmmm....  I had never considered including the Rev engine with the MC IDE
> distribution.  It would be convenient, given the dissection required for OS
> X, but in my mind it keeps everything clean and simple to distribute only
> the IDE.
> 

Has anyone checked:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html



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