[lug] LGPL question

Jeffrey Siegal jbs at quiotix.com
Wed Mar 5 13:11:58 MST 2003


Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 07:15, Jeffrey Siegal wrote:
> 
>>The intent here is that the user is able to modify and recompile the 
>>LGPLed library and then relink that with your program.  That doesn't 
>>necessarily require that any of the source code for your program be 
>>distributed -- usually object files or an object library is enough.
> 
> 
> So I would have to distribute:
> 1. The static library code

Maybe.  The source code for the library should be good enough, but I'm 
not 100% sure.

> 2. The program object not linked with the library
> 3. The statically linked program
> 
> That way the program could be relinked with a recompiled library.  Does
> that sound about right?

Right.  You should also include any build scripts necessary to do so.






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