Leopold: We selected LGPL specifically to enable the kind of balance you describe.
Brad has provided good guidance - if you use the library "as is" then you can tell your users where the geotools library source code is located (i.e. http://github.com/geotools/geotools). If you have to make a modification or fix to the GeoTools library LGPL asks that you make the change available ... to your users. One nice way to do that is by submitting the change or fix to the GeoTools project (and then you can go back to providing your users the http://github.com/geotools/geotools location). Aside: We initially did this copyleft license choice to grow market share in the hopes of attracting additional participation and involvement. While we have lots of reports of GeoTools being used successfully world wide - it remains our downstream GPL communities that are participating in the project. I had some slides [on this topic]( https://www.slideshare.net/jgarnett/understanding-open-source-78550455) but the website was purchased by linkedin and now is terrible. -- Jody Garnett On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 1:51 AM Leopold Bloom <bloomleop...@seznam.cz> wrote: > Hello, > > I have question about potential using the GeoTools in the commercial app. > > > > We are planning to develop a new app and we would like to use GeoTools > library in it. Because LGPL licence terms are not easy to read I´d like to > ask you directly. > > > Our software in the executable form would use GeoTools library by the > static linking. I read that static linking can be problematic towards the > commercial apps. Can we distribute the executable form of the software by > Google Play and AppStore without revealing source code of our whole > software? Or which requirements we have to fulfill to do so? > > > I´ve read your FAQ and according to them, such use seems allright, but I > want to be 100 % sure that we would use your software properly. > > > Thanks for your reply > > Tomas > _______________________________________________ > GeoTools-GT2-Users mailing list > GeoTools-GT2-Users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users >
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