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Sure, just relicense your application under the GPL. You're getting these libraries for free. If you're not at all willing to contribute back, then you're obvio
by catern 12y ago
Sure, just relicense your application under the GPL. You're getting these libraries for free. If you're not at all willing to contribute back, then you're obviously not the target audience.
- awalton 12y agoIf you check Gtk+'s history, I have contributed back on numerous occasions. Unfortunately, convincing the people who write my paychecks, VMware, to contribute Workstation and Player to the Open Source community seems to be a pretty big stretch.
- stefantalpalaru 12y ago"(1) If you statically link against an LGPL'd library, you must also provide your application in an object (not necessarily source) format, so that a user has the opportunity to modify the library and relink the application." - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LGPLStaticVsDynamic http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LGPLStaticVsDynamic So there you have it. Link statically against the LGPL library and package the object files of your commercial application.