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LGPL some questions

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Subject: LGPL some questions
From: Jan Erik Moström <lists at mostrom dot pp dot se>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 15:09:41 +0200
Here is some questions about Library Gnu Public Licence that some of you
might be able to answer (I almost fell to sleep reading the licence 8-)

The RBOpenSource project uses LGPL for the software and as I (and
Frank+++) understands it, this allows anyone to use the code in any
product but it doesn't require you to make the product code available
under LGPL (it possible to keep the rest of the code "secret"). GPL
would require this as I understand it.

But a question: does LGPL require that the source code covered under
LGPL is included in the distribution? Or is it enough that a URL (or
whatever) is included in the documentation?

I mean, when I make a program and distribute it ... 99.9% of the people
using it would only be confused it the source code would be included.


                            jem
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Jan Erik Moström   jem at mostrom dot pp dot se    www.mostrom.pp.se


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