An even better solution is to submit a PR for your later version of compiler which then everybody can use (including you) without "compiling it".
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 4:41 AM Am Shalem, Shlomo [BWIIL] < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks! > > -----Original Message----- > From: zeromq-dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Luca Boccassi > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2017 12:19 PM > To: ZeroMQ development list <[email protected]> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [zeromq-dev] If we compile ZeroMQ sources without > modifying them, and link the resulting DLL to an executable that is part of > our commercial product , does this make our whole product become a software > under LGPL license? > > On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 06:48 +0000, Am Shalem, Shlomo [BWIIL] wrote: > > Hello > > > > We are two people in our company, who are getting to opposite > > conclusions, when reading the license and the license FAQ... > > Could you please help us with the doubt? > > > > If we compile ZeroMQ sources without modifying them, and link the > > resulting DLL to an executable that is part of our commercial > > product , > > > > 1. Does this make our whole product become a software under LGPL > > license? > > 2. OR does this maintain it as legal, closed-source software? > > > > Thanks > > > > Motivation: We are interested in compiling the sources because we are > > using a late version of VisualStudio for which we did not find > > compiled DLL in the ZeroMQ depository. > > The short answers is the 2, the license of your code is not affected. > > The verboser explanation is that any LGPL code can be dynamically linked > to software of any license without affecting it. libzmq offers an > additional grant of top of that which also allows statically linking. > > https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/blob/master/COPYING.LESSER#L169 > > -- > Kind regards, > Luca Boccassi > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev >
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