Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> But IF there is no difference between LGPL and GPL for Haskell
> programs, then the licensing of gtk2hs as LGPL is just a smokescreen -
> it is effectively GPL, so you have to license your program as GPL.
> Which I'm all in favour of :-)
I actually don't think this is 100% true. With the LGPL, you can distribute
your program with under a non-GPL license, as long as you provide *some
mechanism* for replacing the library and recreating the program. Normally this
means dynamic linking. But it also allows you (I think) to distribute your
program with a GPL-incompatible-but-nevertheless-open-source license, because
that provides a mechanism for replacing the library (because you can rebuild
the program from source). If you license the library under GPL, you cannot
even do that. At least this is my understanding...
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