Hi, Stanislav!
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 11:41:46PM +0200, you wrote the following:
> OZ>> While IANAL, my understanding of the situation is that LGPL was designed
> OZ>> exactly for such a situation.
>
> More interesting question. Let's say we have some open source non-GPL
> application, which uses LGPL-library.
>
> 1. Is such application legal?
> 2. Can LGPL library source be distibuted together with source of the
> application if it's unmodified? Same if it's amended to reach
> compatibility (say, makefiles change, etc.)?
>
> I remember that KDE had this sort of problems, but I don't remember what
> was the resolution.
There shouldn't be a problem with that. KDE had a problem because it
linked GPLed code with a non-GPLed library, which is obviously
forbidden. LGPL wans't involved at all. Now that Qt is GPLed there's
no problem with KDE either.
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