Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: base-4 + gtk2hs-0.10.0 licensing

* Peter Verswyvelen [2009-02-25 23:15:24 +0100]:

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Peter Hercek wrote:

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* An LGPL library will force commercial users to release their source code only to the users of their program (which already bought it) and only for the purpose of recompiling with a newer version of the LGPL library.

Does this also mean one can't make closed source but *free* software that uses LGPL libs? Since all users can then potentially request the source code? E.g. suppose Google would have used LGPL libraries to implement parts of their search engine...

Google doesn't distribute code or binaries for google.com, though (although there is the appliance stuff..) -- mithrandi, i Ainil en-Balandor, a faer Ambar