Re: [libmicrohttpd] License incompatibility with embedded targets

[Øyvind Harboe]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Christian Grothoff
<address@hidden> wrote:
> It is my understanding that the LGPL is satisfied if you make all 
> modifications
> you make to the MHD library available to your users under the LGPL.
> In this context, modifications to the library would for me be anything that 
>provides
> implementations of APIs in the "microhttpd.h" header file.  How you link to
> this code (static/dynamic/whatever) does not really matter.

Unfortunally, this is not the case. I would like to modify the libmicrohttpd
license such that this *is* sufficient and it seems like you feel that
it *should* be sufficient,

> Finally, I would like us to not go into a long discussion into this topic on
> this list; let's not turn this list into debian-legal.

This is not a long discussion unless we make it one.

The LGPL is clear on static linking without offering a "bugfixing"
capability: it's not permitted.

I have checked more than on "legal department" on this one, I can dig
up more legal advice if you want, but we can greatly shorten this discussion
if we agree that static linking without bugfixing capability is in violation
of LGPL:

http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg10545.html



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