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On Thursday 13 December 2001 18:44, David Elliott wrote:
Umm, do I sense a little Deja Vu here. IIRC Wine's original license had some issues that meant it wasn't GPL compatible. The new license, which I understand is a modified BSD or an X11 license, basically says do whatever you want with it.
LGPL would have been ideal except several people pointed out that because it disallows static linking it would be unsuitable for systems without a dynamic linker (e.g. embedded systems).
I think it's worth pointing out that the LGPL doesn't force you to distribute shared libraries. You can statically link your own work with a library covered by the LGPL, as long as you provide object code (or source) of your work, allowing a user to relink the LGPL library with your work.
You must also allow modifications to your work, and reverse engineering for debugging the modifications.
That, at least, is my reading of the license.
Ori Pessach
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