Sure, you can link against it without becoming LGPL. But when I run the program at that link on my computer, it runs without me providing an MPIR library. Since the author is asking about this on our list, I assumed his binary must contain a copy of MPIR. That is called a "combined work" in the LGPL and therefore he needs to do 4.(a-e) of the LGPL when conveying that work:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html Bill. On 8 November 2012 23:21, Dann Corbit <dcor...@connx.com> wrote: > If it is an LPGL application, and it does not modify the library, does the > application that uses it also become LGPL? > According to my understanding, even a commercial application can link against > LGPL libraries. > > -----Original Message----- > From: mpir-devel@googlegroups.com [mailto:mpir-devel@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Bill Hart > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 2:35 PM > To: mpir-devel@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: [mpir-devel] Re: how would you recommend me to multithread an > MPIR C++ application? pthread? > > Apologies if I am missing something here, but shouldn't there be a license > text somewhere? Or does this not actually depend on MPIR (which is LGPL v3+)? > > Bill. > > On 8 November 2012 22:11, Richard Marton <y...@tekken.cc> wrote: >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/ufokd88d5o47ata/FINAL.zip > [snip] > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mpir-devel" group. > To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en.
