Marten Svanfeldt wrote:
> Accualy it is Rene who is right here.
> 
> The important part of the LGPL is section 6. It says (long quote, just  
> so that we discuss same thing ,)

[snip]

> As is default right now libcrystalspace is a static library, which  
> means that option b outlined above is not fullfilled. So to comply  
> with LGPL you have to comply with option a and distribute your  
> application either in source or object file format, both of which  
> might not be wanted or possible (I myself prefer not to do this for  
> example :)

Distributing object code is specifically not possible if you happen to 
be using other closed source libraries for which you are not allowed to 
distribute in anything but integrated form. One example of these are 
license enforcement libraries, common for shareware applications.

> The problem this causes is a known one and the reason work have begun  
> on shared building of libcrystalspace; however at the moment none of  
> the devs seems to be intrested enough or have time enough to look into  
> the issues that still exists.

And I didn't expect complete functionality when I read "EXPERIMENTAL" 
next to the feature. But I certainly didn't expect "no functionality". 
It basically means that the CS developers equate experimental to 
not-possible.

> Patches that fixes it are most welcome!  
> :) (Or you can wait and hope someone else fixes it...)

Of course, the true spirit of Open Source :-) But I already spend most 
of my free time contributing to other Open Source projects to even think 
of doing that. And the project schedule I'm working under wouldn't allow 
  for time to fix CS to have functional dynamic linking. Instead I've 
decided to use OGRE3D which is still LGPL, but at least it has well 
functioning dynamic libraries.


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