I agree that it seems like there's there's no prohibition on distributing LPGL 
objects, but it seems like unless I fork libpd and remove that extern I'm 
required to make my object code available as well. Is that other's 
understanding also? 

-- 
Tony Hillerson


On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 at 13:04 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:

> Hi Tony -
> 
> I'm not sure, but I always thought you can distribute LGPL objects within
> commercial (closed-source) software. If I'm wrong about that, the next
> step would be to re-rwite the patch without using expr~ and not include
> expr~ in the product. (I keep it as an extern to make that easy to do.)
> 
> cheers
> Miller
> 
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 11:32:21AM -0600, Tony Hillerson wrote:
> > Hey guys, 
> > 
> > I'm wondering about the restrictions for using Pure Data patches in Android 
> > and iOS apps with libpd. I have a rudimentary understanding that if I 
> > distribute software that's released under the GPL or LGPL I need to make 
> > available my source or at least the object files of my app.
> > 
> > As I understand it, from the vanilla distribution contains [expr~], which 
> > is LGPL. If I use libpd, I'm distributing it, and I need to make the source 
> > or the object files of my apps available. Is that correct? Are there any 
> > paid apps that use pd and distribute through Google Play or Appstore? 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Tony Hillerson
> > 
> 
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