no name wrote: > Greetings, > > Please excuse the obfuscated nature of my login, but I need to stay > deeply anonymous for the time being. > > Your modifications to the LGPL are very generous. I wanted to clear > up a couple of issues before I commit to using FLTK, if I may. > > The modifications seem to want to exclude static linking to the > unmodified FLTK source from any sort of licensing issues, but it > looks like section 6 still has some pitfalls. Even if the sections > 1, 2, and 4 are not required, section 6 still seems to need to be > adhered to.
Right. > I need to provide a closed source library that is either statically > linked to your unmodified library for GUI purposes, or that will > dynamically link to a DLL provided by me compiled from your > unmodified source with the source for FLTK included as part of my > distribution. I do not wish to encumber any third party down the > line with any more licensing terms than I must. They will be the > ones making any executable and perhaps distributing it. For a variety of practical/technical reasons, you need to link your library to the FLTK DLL anyways - you can't link multiple copies of FLTK into an application (directly or indirectly) and have things work. If, for some reason, you *do* want to statically incorporate all or part of FLTK into your DLL, then you'll need to provide the source for that DLL with the code you used from FLTK. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products mike at easysw dot com Internet Printing and Document Software http://www.easysw.com _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
