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How many users have ever sought to relink a statically linked closed source app with an updated version of an LGPL library? I’m sure somebody has done it somewh
by skissane 2y ago
How many users have ever sought to relink a statically linked closed source app with an updated version of an LGPL library? I’m sure somebody has done it somewhere. But I think it is so very rare, to the point that for the vast vast majority of people (even people with the necessary technical skills to do it), it is a theoretical right rather than a practically relevant one.
In fact, I think this would technically comply with the LGPL: package with the software an offer to supply this “link kit” on request, but don’t bother actually creating it until such time as a request is received. Significant chance nobody ever requests it, and hence you never have to do the work of creating it. And in the unlikely event someone does eventually ask for it, you could always collect the object files manually rather than some automated process as I suggested.
- exe34 2y agoI think your plan is a good one, assuming you still have access to the build system/compilers, etc when the request is made.