On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 09:38:20 +0400
Anton Vodonosov <avodono...@yandex.ru> wrote:

> > 1 - Licensing/the ecl-android build process. ECL is LGPL, which means I 
> > can't statically link against it without open sourcing my project (which I 
> > can't), but ecl-android generates a static library for it. Since there are 
> > so many files and generators, I don't even know where to start to change it 
> > to a shared library.
> 
> You are mistaken here - you can link with LGPL libraries without open 
> sourcing your code.
> This is exactly the difference between GPL and LGPL.

Unless I'm mistaken (disclaimer: I'm no lawyer), dynamic linking is
fine, as it allows to fulfill the requirement that the user be able to
upgrade the LGPL dependencies, while static linking might be
problematic...
-- 
Matt

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