Re: Include MathLib in a project

[Veronica Loell]

John is making a really important point here that I would like to 
emphasize and expand upon. Regardless of _how_ you use an application or 
library you _are_ bound by the licence for that piece of software and 
should read the licence and make sure that you understand it, otherwise 
how can you know if you adhere to it or not? So "even" if you distribute 
the library as a whole with your application, which would probably be a 
better idea then telling people to go get it before they can use your 
application, you obviously have to adhere to the licence it is 
distributed under. If you just tell people that they need to go fetch it 
for themselfs if they want your application to work then possibly you do 
not need to bother with the librarys licence, I'm not totally sure about 
that though.

Again, an OSI-approved (Open Source Initiative) licence does not mean it 
is placed in the public domain, it means whatever the specific licence 
actually says. The one part which always is a part of an "Open Source" 
licence is that you have to either provide the user with the sourcecode 
or point them to a place where they can retrieve it themselfs.

Specifics of FSF:s licences and Open Source licences are probably best 
persued through www.fsf.org and www.opensource.org. You can find 
information about the different licences through links from there.

- Veronica

John Marshall wrote:
[...]
If you want to redistribute code from MathLib that is licensed according
to the LGPL, you must do so according to the LGPL [1].  To find out
exactly what you should do, you should (surprisingly enough) read the
LGPL.  You'll find it and a FAQ at http://www.fsf.org/.  The short
answer to your question is no -- as we've been telling you, this
involves more than just the about box.  Furrfu.


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