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Re: "LGPL API" (was: Re: Private company and code salvation)
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: "LGPL API" (was: Re: Private company and code salvation) |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:21:50 -0400 |
On 29-Sep-2008, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
| --- On Mon, 9/29/08, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
|
| > I don't think you can. Once you link some code
| > licensed under the
| > LGPL with some other code licensed under the GPL, you must
| > distribute
| > the result under the terms of the GPL. So it is not
| > possible to avoid
| > the terms of the GPL by simply inserting an interface
| > covered by the
| > LGPL between non-free code and code covered by the GPL.
|
| Linux kernel is GPL, ALSA is LGPL, I believe ALSA site claims one can
| created closed-source audio applications based on ALSA.
|
| ALSA drivers are loaded dynamically if Linux kernel is compiled so,
| ALSA lib - the thing end user needs for his/her audio application - is
| a DLL - IIRC.
I don't think there is unanimous agreement about this issue. Just
because one project looks the other way doesn't mean that what they
are doing is a valid interpretation of the GPL.
jwe
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