The CAPI Manifesto

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Sat Oct 22 10:51:30 PDT 2011


On 2011-10-22 15:41, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> I have a question about licensing. If you translate a C LGPL'ed header
> file to D, and you keep the same license, are you still allowed to use
> whichever license in your user code that uses the new D files? Because
> I don't know whether using LGPL'ed .d files falls under "using the
> library" or "extending the library".
>
> For example, CairoD has translated Cairo LGPL/MPL'ed header files in
> equivalent Boost-licensed .d files. I know I'm asking for free lawyer
> advice here, but do you think this is going to be a problem?

You still need to link to the C library.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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