It's an issue for closed-source developers.

It's an issue for closed-source developers.

Posted Jan 8, 2004 3:19 UTC (Thu) by elanthis (subscriber, #6227)
In reply to: It's an issue for closed-source developers. by arcticwolf
Parent article: LWN's Obviously Incorrect 2004 Predictions

It doesn't matter if you directly link or not. If you link anything to the GPL, it becomes implicitly GPLd. If the LGPL library depends on the GPL library, it must be under the terms of the GPL. Therefor, any apps that link to the LGPL library are bound by the same terms as if they linked against the GPL library. At least, this is how it was explained to me by the FSF a few years ago when I had GPL vs BSD linking questions for them.

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