On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, John Cupitt wrote: > For curiosity, could someone explain the commercial objections to > LGPL (or suggest a link)? Libraries such as gtk are LGPL and they > seem to used commercially without problems (as far as I know).
If the commercial use of LGPLed libraries targets operating systems that include the libraries (e.g. Linux includes Gtk), then there is reduced/little concern. If the library needs to be added to the environment (e.g. LCMS under Windows or even LCMS under Linux since LCMS is not yet standard under Linux) then the vendor takes the full responsibility for LGPL upon his self, including allowing the user to reverse-engineer his application. If LCMS is built into the application as a static library, then the vendor would need to provide either his proprietary sources, or pre-built objects corresponding to his sources, so that the user is able to re-link the application (as required by LGPL). Bob > > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Marti Maria wrote: > > > >>At that point, I would like to do a change on the license. Many > >>people has asked for a more liberal license than LGPL. That is ok > >>for most small projects, but for corporate use or for embedding in > >>firmware it has some difficulties. > >> > >>So, I am willing to change the current LGPL license to MIT license: > >> > >>http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC > GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from > any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it Free! > https://www.gotomypc.com/tr/OSDN/AW/Q4_2003/t/g22lp?Target=mm/g22lp.tmpl > _______________________________________________ > Lcms-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lcms-user > ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen ------------------------------------------------------- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it Free! https://www.gotomypc.com/tr/OSDN/AW/Q4_2003/t/g22lp?Target=mm/g22lp.tmpl _______________________________________________ Lcms-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lcms-user
