On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 22:52, David Cournapeau <[email protected]> wrote: > René Dudfield wrote: >> pygame is also LGPL... as are a number of other libraries. (pyqt is GPL >> btw). >> >> LGPL basically means you can link to the library source, but if you >> make changes to the library you should give them back. Users should >> also be able to change the library if they want... either through >> source or relinking. >> > > It is far from being that simple, because the notion on whether you are > allowed to use the library with proprietary software is based on > derivative work, not "link to the library source". For compiled code, it > is generally admitted that if you use the library as a shared library > (dynamic linking), the program you link to is not derivative, and hence > can be any license you want.
Not at all. The FSF and a large proportion of GPL users claim otherwise. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
