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>> Is static linking of these a bad idea, for any licensing reasons?  (I'm
>> fairly clueless about these things...)
> Static linking GPL libraries into a closed source executable is not allowed.
>
> Static linking LGPL libraries into a closed source executable is allowed
> but I believe that the means to relink the executable must be provided
> somewhere. In practice that means making the object code of the closed
> source parts available.
Relevant T&C:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LGPLStaticVsDynamic
>
> The above LGPL case should be the situation with kvasd, I can't answer
> for sure since I don't know which libraries are being statically linked.
>
> The complexity of making object code available might be not worth the
> trouble and dynamic linking may be easiest IMHO. AFAIK dynamic linking
> is the way that this is done in almost all proprietary products.
>>      -- Joe, K1JT
73
Bill
G4WJS.

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