Yes indeed, mea culpa, sorry. My view is that it's fine under LGPL v2.1 too - note that section 4 states "You may copy and distribute the Library (or a portion or derivative of it, under Section2)" (my highlighting). The bottom line [in my view] is that the LGPL's intention is to give people freedom to use the software as long as they're not trying to restrict other people's freedom.
/Pete From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Niv Ingberg Sent: 07 August 2013 06:28 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [nhusers] Minimizing NHibernate redistribution Thanks for the input. I think your answer is regarding LGPL v3 software, whereas NHibernate's licence is LGPL v2.1. Does it still apply? On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 2:38:23 PM UTC+3, PeteA wrote: My understanding is that that's entirely legal and perfectly appropriate as long as you provide appropriate notices as per sections 4a -> 4c of the LGPL; you're already meeting 4d(1) by using a DLL. FWIW, I personally like to meet 4d(0) by providing a download link to the source but believe that that's entirely optional. /Pete From: [email protected] <javascript:> [mailto:[email protected] <javascript:> ] On Behalf Of Niv Ingberg Sent: 06 August 2013 07:41 To: [email protected] <javascript:> Subject: [nhusers] Minimizing NHibernate redistribution Hi, We have a commercial product which provides in-memory caching (among other features), and we're bundling NHibernate 3.3 with our product to show that it can be used to persist the data. The actual question is: The total size of NHibernate-3.3.3.GA-bin is ~37MB, and we'd like to reduce it, if possible. Now, the Tests folder weighs ~22MB, which we don't really need. In addition, The Required_Bins folder contains not only dll files, but also pdb and xml (api doc) files (~11.4MB) which are helpful for developers but not required at runtime. So if we remove the tests+pdbs+api-xmls we save about ~33.4MB out of ~37MB, which is damn impressive. Is that legal? I've read the LGPL and googled a bit, but didn't find a decisive answer. (I realize this is a developer forum and not a legal forum, but would still like to hear your opinion). Thanks in advance, Niv -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nhusers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected] <javascript:> . To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <javascript:> . Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nhusers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nhusers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
