[Lazarus] [OT] About licences

waldo kitty wkitty42 at windstream.net
Thu Mar 31 04:09:43 CEST 2011


On 3/30/2011 08:18, Zaher Dirkey wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 09:23:12AM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>      > > The (L)GPL with exception bit absolves you from that.
>      >
>      > Where does it say that? By "LGPL with exception", I gather you mean like
>      > the license used by FPC? It that case, there is only a "static linking
>      > exception". You are still required to donate all modifications to the
>      > LGPL code though, just like the vanilla LGPL license.
>
>     My bad, you are entirely right. The exception absloves you from the clause
>     that forces dynlinking, not the OSS bits. I don't know what I was thinking.
>
>
> I always feel not free with all this free licenses.

my thoughts, too... for many years ;)

but then again, free beer might "cost" you a few hours labor of one sort or 
another, too ;)




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