parastoo saadat wrote: > hi mr garnett > > sorry,i want to ask one question again, > because i do't understand truly, > > in the LGPL license ,said that when a LGPL library(like geotools) > link with a non-free program for use of it,we arenot under the LGPL > license. but do this case means that we can sale our program(that link > with LGPL lib)with no license or publish it with any license? Good question, I think the focus is to allow you to sell your work that makes use of the geotools library. You will need to include the geotools library, and if you need to hack any of the jars you will need to make those hacks available to us (ie a patch, a tarball or something). But we would invite you just to work with us on any bugs you find.
The point is that your code remains your code, and you can give it away or sell it or whatever. Our code does remain our code, and it is made available to you with the LGPL license. When you sell your program to people, geotools code comes along for the ride, and if your users want to look at geotools code they can come and talk to us ... Usual I am not a layer comment. In practice GeoTools is used in several commercial projects, and the real reason to give us back any changes is to cut down on your own maintenance costs. Jody ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
