Yes, it is beginning to appear that I have been grossly misinformed about
the LGPL. It would not be the first time I've had to stick my foot in my
mouth, but in this case I am quite happy to do so, because this is most
excellent news (well, news to me anyway)!
Thank you very much for clearing this
On Tuesday, 2013-05-14, Ted Gould wrote:
> We expect that applications that need sophisticated dependency schemes
> will include those dependencies in their own packages. There will be a
> base image that everyone can depend on, but beyond that, you'll need to
> BYOD (bring your own dependency).
On Tuesday, 2013-05-14, Jeremy Bell wrote:
> There is more to it than providing the sources for the library the app
> includes, at least for commercial applications.
>
> To summarize this:
> http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/439136.html
> 1) The application and the shared library mus
You're confusing bundling with static linking. I would really recommend
checking out the click packages session to see what is going on here.
You can really think of it more as a self contained ZIP file than a
single binary that gets executed. The ZIP file can contain heaven knows
what, and the
There is more to it than providing the sources for the library the app
includes, at least for commercial applications.
To summarize this:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/439136.html
1) The application and the shared library must be distributed separately.
If the application and the
I don't see any reason that this is LGPL incompatible. It just means
that the app author needs to provide sources for the library that they
include. Just like I can provide a binary distribution on a CD and then
provide sources separately.
There is no plan at this time to include Mono in the ba
Thanks Ted for your more clear answer. This is most unfortunate. I would
have thought that, if any mobile OS would be LGPL friendly, it would be
Ubuntu. Unfortunately if it is truly BYOD, it is once again impossible for
apps to comply with the LGPL license of third party libraries.
Is there any po
We expect that applications that need sophisticated dependency schemes
will include those dependencies in their own packages. There will be a
base image that everyone can depend on, but beyond that, you'll need to
BYOD (bring your own dependency).
There'll be a difference between packages that a
I tried asking this question on the forums and the IRC channel, but haven't
been able to find someone with the right answer.
I am researching whether it would be possible to distribute a shared
library/runtime package on the Ubuntu software center for distribution on
the phone and tablet versions
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