On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 05:00:52AM -0800, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Under LGPL, you must provide linkable object files to your (possibly > closed source) program, so that people who made changes to (or obtained an > updated version of) a LGPL'ed library can re-link your program and use the > updated library. The above does not ask you to do so. > > The way I read LGPL is that "We deeply care about our LGPL library and any > improvements to it. Although we do not care at all about how your crappy > closed source program is written, we want to make sure that the users can > keep using your program after improvements are made to our library.". I > do not think it makes a practical difference when your program uses the > LGPL library as a shard library from that point of view. Ah, I see - so this is a "Lesser LGPL". :) Thank you both Junio and David.
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