Re: License Question
Ken Collins <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.db.tds.freetds |
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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). Absolutely true. > 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 Thank you Brian! - Ken