Re: KDE's Crystal icon theme license violation found

Esben Mose Hansen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.licensing
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday February 27 2007 11:56, Andreas Pietzowski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > Any use for commercial or lucrative purpose is strictly forbidden.
> > All downloads must not be redistributed in any way (i.e. magazine
> > that includes a CD or on another Internet website) without
> > permission!
>
> I thought that is the difference between GPL and LGPL. LGPL you can
> also use in a closed-source-application (as to say it in one simple
> sentence).

In a word, you are quite wrong :)

LGPL allows you to link in the LGPL'ed code as a library, provided that you 
make the library available under LGPL, including any modifications you have 
made. 

In contrast, to use a GPL'ed library, the entire application must be available 
under the GPL.

-- 
regards, Esben

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