ANNOUNCEMENT: GNU-D opens up shop (LGPL)

[Anders F Björklund]

Don Clugston wrote:

> It is much better. The prohibition against static linking is IMHO the 
> most absurd condition in any license I've seen (with the possible 
> exception of the Arse licence used by Deimos).

But you know why LGPL has this somewhat tedious requirement, right ?

You *can* link your app statically, as long as you provide the object
files necessary for linking everything with the LGPL library replaced.
You do have to include the source code for the LGPL component, though.
(Most of the time just using the standard shared libraries is easier)

Anyway, the wxWidgets license does allow you to link it either way...

> But having a license with an exception just seems complicated to me.

Having two licenses on one code isn't exactly uncomplicated either...

--anders