Re: GPL versus LGPL ?
"Roso Giuseppe (Beppe)" <roso@arena.sci.univr.it> wrote:
>On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
>> Could someone breafly explain me what are the main differences between
>> a GPL and a LGPL licence?
>
>LGPL is a bit restricted version of GPL: often LGPL is
>applied to opensource software (like software under GPL or similar
>licenses) but this software requires tools/libraries that are under other
>licenses that are not similar to GPL.
It can go the other way too; if programs not covered by the GPL want to
use an LGPLed library, they can do so, whereas they couldn't do so if
the library were GPLed. (This was the original purpose of the LGPL: see
glibc, for instance.)
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html
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Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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