RE: LGPL

[Erik Ch. Ohrnberger]

Edgar,
        I think you are right to be concerned.  Quoting now from the COPYING
file in the commoncpp2-1.1.1 distribution:

This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you may
consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
Public License instead of this License.

        If this is the case, I guess I'll have to stop using the library as
well, even though I'm only using the object persistence part.

        Well, back to the drawing board.  My employer can't, or will not,
release the program that I'm writing for him as open source.  I'm afraid
it's a policy that I'll not be able to change.

        Erik.

> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of edgar wander
> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 5:22 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: LGPL
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
>    I need to release a CLOSED SOURCE software, for comercial 
> use (enterprise 
> commpetitive reazons). That sofware are based in Threads and 
> Socket from 
> Common C++ library.
> 
>    In order to provide the sofware I need a binary 
> representation: .o or 
> executable.
> 
>    I thing that, I can make Wrappers Classes in order to decouple and 
> isolate the cc++ library services from my code, then compile 
> them to create 
> a .o files, and then THIS OBJECTS FILES ARE MY PRODUCT, AND I 
> CAN COPY RIGTH 
> THEM. The cc++ library are then dynamic linked.
> 
>   But, I wonder (because I feel "legal fear"):
> -- is it a really legal action ?
> -- Can I copy rigth the .o code, compiled using g++ ?
> -- where can I found specific information about, using the 
> LGPL as a basis 
> for CLOSED SOFTWARE ?,( the LGPL-GPL FAQ are not clear, 
> considering that it 
> is a legal matter !)
> 
> Thanks !
> 
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