Re: kdepim/konsolekalendar [POSSIBLY UNSAFE]

On Miércoles 24 Marzo 2004 00:16, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 March 2004 08:15, Bo Thorsen 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.

That will in the first place depend on the license of the proprietary library. 
Generaly speaking, if you paid for it, you can use it. 

> 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".
>
> Please explain why you think that LGPL allows linking to proprietary
> libraries. 

Probably it is the author that implements the linking. The author is always 
free to do what he wants. He is the almighty copyright holder.

>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.

No, they don't like the lgpl themselves that much. 

>
> Regards,
> Ingo


Cordialemente,

Ante



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