Re: elementary OS

[Pirmin Braun]

Am Tue, 11 Feb 2014 12:12:57 +0000
schrieb David Chisnall <theraven@sucs.org> :

> On 11 Feb 2014, at 11:58, Pirmin Braun <pb@intars.de> wrote:
> 
> > we're just using the LGPL libs -lgnustep-base -lWebServer for our 
> > Commercial Open Source (non-GPL) product IntarS. I never came across 
> > defaults and gpbs. Hope this is compliant?
> 
> I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.  My interpretation would be 
> that, as long as you are dynamic linking or shipping the object code so that 
> your customers can link against a modified version of GNUstep, then it's 
> fine.  If your company owns any patents (not just software patents), then you 
> should probably ask a lawyer what happens if one of your customers decides to 
> accept LGPLv3 on one of the versions of GNUstep that you ship (I've asked 3 
> lawyers and got 3 different answers though, so it might not be very 
> informative).

fine; we link dynamically and have no patents; we even "ship" our source (it's 
on a public svn)

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