Re: Monodevelop made application not starting on ubuntu
Robert Jordan <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnome.mono.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 06.08.2015 14:48, Edward Ned Harvey (mono) wrote: >> From: [email protected] [mailto:mono-list- >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Jordan >> >> On 05.08.2015 18:40, Andres G. Aragoneses wrote: >>>>> I hope you've considered the licensing implications. In particular, >>>>> if you distribute the mono runtime with an application, your >>>>> application will need to be GPL. >>>> The runtime is LGPL. >>> >>> But AFAIU when you use mkbundle you're not "l"inking anymore, you're >>> joining everything together in one executable. So then the result must >>> be LGPL as well. >> >> Only if mkbundle's --static option is used. Otherwise (w/out --static), >> the bundled app is still dynamically loading the LGPLed runtime >> (libmono*.so) => the license of the bundled app does not need >> to be LGPL compatible. > > This is emphatically a lawyer question. Are you a lawyer? Which question? No one was asking for legal advice. > The legal implication of static linking files is a fuzzy one - What if you're not static linked but then your application gets distributed in a zip file or some other package that joins them all into a single file? What if that package file is self-executable? Very fuzzy. I was solely talking about mkbundle's output. Other distribution methods, like (self-extracting) archives that might by applied after mkbundle, were not subject of the discussion. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list