On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 01:42:13AM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote: > Can I statically link of the codepage headers (e.g. cp1252.h) from > libiconv with an MIT Licensed module? I would not actually alter the > file of course so a user could not modify the LGPL files in my module > any more than if they had used libiconv directly.
The LGPL is designed to allow programs with GPL-incompatible licenses to link against them; that license (assuming you mean http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt) is GPL-compatible (says http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html), so you could link against it even if the header in question was GPL'd. (Strictly speaking, using headers isn't linking; I'm not sure how this is covered in the license, but the LGPL would be useless if it permitted linking but not including.) IANAL nor a license expert; assume all of the above is false. You'd be much better off looking for a license-oriented list or mailing the FSF. -- Glenn Maynard -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
