Re: kdepim/konsolekalendar [POSSIBLY UNSAFE]

On Wednesday 24 March 2004 00:16, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
>
> Can you prove your claim about the LGPL
> (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html)? I found no indication that
> it's allowed to link an LGPL-licensed program to a proprietary
> library. LGPL is meant to be used for the other direction, i.e. allow
> linking proprietary programs to LGPL-licensed libraries. The LGPL
> uses a lot the following term "work that uses the Library". OTOH it
> doesn't talk about "libraries that the Library uses".

Does linking really have a direction? Linking means putting together. 
konsolekalendar won't work without Qt and the Qt library without 
konsolekalendar won't do anything useful either. So konsolekalendar 
using the proprietary version of Qt is a "work that uses the Library", 
where "Library" means konsolekalendar. I think that's pretty clear.

> Please explain why you think that LGPL allows linking to proprietary
> libraries. As I mentioned in my other message GNU specifically
> recommends to use GPL + exception if one wants to link to a
> QPL-licensed library. If LGPL would be an alternative then they would
> have mentioned it.

Well, the FSF strongly advises against using the LGPL, so they don't 
mention it at all, if possible. For example there isn't a LGPL FAQ like 
the GPL FAQ, although there are certainly as many frequently asked 
questions about the LGPL as the GPL.

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Cornelius Schumacher <[email protected]>