[Haskell-cafe] Re: base-4 + gtk2hs-0.10.0 licensing

Peter Verswyvelen bugfact at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 17:15:24 EST 2009


On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Peter Hercek <phercek at gmail.com> wrote:

> * An LGPL library will force commercial users to release their source code
> only to the users of their program (which already bought it) and only for
> the purpose of recompiling with a newer version of the LGPL library.

Does this also mean one can't make closed source but *free* software
that uses LGPL libs? Since all users can then potentially request the
source code? E.g. suppose Google would have used LGPL libraries to
implement parts of their search engine...


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