Re: linking a proprietary application against ORBit2

Frederic Crozat <[email protected]> Fri, 01 Jul 2005 12:12:46 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.orbit.general
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Le jeudi 30 juin 2005 à 18:56 -0400, Ilguiz Latypov a écrit :
> Is the ORBit2 library covered by GPL or LGPL?
> 
> We are writing a proprietary application that currently links
> against ORBit2.  If ORBit2 is strictly GPL, we would be required
> to disclose the source code.  (A positively-sounding version: we
> would be freeing our code for peer review and adoption).
> 
> There are both COPYING (GPL) and COPYING.LIB (LGPL) files in the
> top-level ORBit2 CVS directory.  The linc2 subdirectory contains
> the file COPYING with LGPL in it.  I assume this means that linc2
> is under LGPL.  The terms of linking against libORBit-2.so are
> unclear.

libORBit-2.so is part of GNOME Platform, therefore, it is under LGPL.
Only executables from ORBit2 are under GPL.

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Frederic Crozat <[email protected]>
Mandriva