On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 08:13:08PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > John Whitmore dixit: > > >I have written a library of code for a few of Microchip's PIC > >micro-controllers licensed under the LGPL. Microchip have libraries of > >USB code, licensed under Apache 2.0, which I'd like to use in an > >application. So I'd like my main.c file to be able to call one of my > >functions and call one of Microchip's functions. (Actually more then > >one but lets start small.) > > In your specific case: the LGPL is rather lax when it comes to > being combined; all you have to do is to provide everything ELSE > from the program (your code, the Microchip libraries, etc.) in > object form (*.o/*.obj, *.a/*.lib) so recipients can link them > against a modified version of the LGPL library. The Apache 2 > licence also only applies to the direct work. > > So, you can use any permissive licence for your main.c and even > some copyleft-ish ones (details to be discussed). > > In a more general case: if the work you create is a derivative > work of the code under incompatible licences, you’re out of luck > unless the licences themselves provide a way out (like the one > above). >
Thanks so much for that response that's just the information I was looking for. _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
