> Vincent Snijders wrote:
> > I am not a lawyer, but:
> >
> > GTK is used as dynamic linked library and ordinary LGPL allows using
> > dynamic linked libraries in applications without distributing the source
> > of the application.
> >
> > The modification [in the LCL license] allows you using the LCL in your
> > application even though you don't distribute
> > the source of it, just as if the LCL was dynamic linked as GTK.
>
> Here is the way I interprite the LGPL section 6.
>
> "6. As an exception to the Sections above, you may also combine or link a
> "work that uses the Library" with the Library to produce a work containing
> portions of the Library, and distribute that work under terms of your choice,
>
> -------provided that the terms permit modification of the work for the
> -------customer's own use and reverse engineering for debugging such
> -------modifications--------."
I'm also no license expert, but in some countries (most European included),
reverse engineering to keep a system working is a relative strong right that
can't be waved by EULA. The crucial phrase here is "for the customers own use"
IOW, a lot of users in a lot of countries have this right anyway.
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