On May 24, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Greg Ercolano wrote: > Albrecht Schlosser wrote: >>> Assuming that works, the only thing that might be wrong with this >>> (having a small static link stub to access the DLL) would be an >>> LGPL issue, believe it or not. >>> >>> <LGPL ISSUE> >> [...] >>> </LGPL ISSUE> >> >> IANAL, but... Our FLTK library allows to link statically as an explicit >> exception, so why wouldn't it be allowed to link most of FLTK dynamically >> (DLL) and a small part (WinMain()) statically ? > > Oh, guess I forgot about that ;) > Indeed the discussion I cited was about another LGPL library. > > However; I wonder how compatible our LGPL exception is > with the other libs we include (png, jpeg). I guess those > are optional libs that the user can link against as dlls, > but if one uses them, perhaps our exception becomes disabled.
PNG, JPEG, and ZLIB are all BSD-style copyright licenses - no problems there. ________________________________________ Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products _______________________________________________ fltk-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev
