Re: License Question
Brian Bruns <[email protected]>
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The relevant provision of the LGPL is that your program must be able to be relinked against a modified version of FreeTDS. This is an issue for commercial software, but if you are under an MIT license and providing source code, this should not be a problem (user can relink by recompiling). It will however mean that, whereas under MIT somebody would be able to take the code closed source, the downstream recipient will be likewise obligated to either 1) make source available 2) make object files available for relinking statically or 3) switch to dynamic linking if they don't distribute code. tldr; yes you can statically link but there are some caveats. Hope this helps, Brian On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Christos Zoulas <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 27, 5:33pm, [email protected] (Ken Collins) wrote: > -- Subject: [freetds] License Question > > | > | So TinyTDS has a statically compiled/linked version of FreeTDS when we distribute our gem for Windows. My project is a MIT License. What should I do in my license for FreeTDS if any? Sorry, I'm really bad with licenses and would appreciate any help. > | > | - Ken > > Why don't you dynamically link to it? I think that you are on dangerous ground > by statically linking, because the functionality your gem is presenting to the > rest of the world, is the functionality provided by freetds and nothing more, > so you would end up being considered a derivative work. > > IANAL > > christos > _______________________________________________ > FreeTDS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/freetds >