Hey everyone,
I have been reading up on the OSG license and the LGPL license. From
what I understand, OSG and Producer are distributed under the OSG
license (basically the wxWindows license), but OpenThreads is still
distributed under the LGPL license. The question I have is, can we
still develop a non open source app that uses OSG? Since OSG uses
OpenThreads, and the LGPL license isn't very friendly to closed
source software (the reason wxWindows was created in the first
place), this seems like a barrier to proprietary software using OSG!
For example ... my app links with the OSG libs, which in turn link
with Producer and OpenThreads. According to the OSG license, I can
distribute the OSG and Producer binaries under my own terms, but
OpenThreads (being LGPL) requires that my app basically be open
source also (sections 5&6 of LGPL).
I'm sure that I am misunderstanding something here ... anyone care to
enlighten me? I did search this topic but haven't found any relavant
info, so I'm sorry if I'm asking a repeat question. :)
Thanks!
Ravi
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