Re: Licensing

Jace Krull <krull@balatech.com> · Tue, 17 Jun 2003 17:50:43 -0400

There was a very detailed thread on this subject not too long ago. Check 
the archives for the LGPL topic (within the last two months). The net as 
I understood it was, if you supply a dynamically linked executable, then 
there's no obligation to supply source, or even object files. The key is 
that someone can update/patch/hack their GTK+ library and your program 
will automatically link to the new library. License satisified.

Caveat: I'm not a lawyer, so please don't take my word for it.

Jace

wurzin@ywave.com wrote:

Hi,

Is there a means by which I can acquire permission to link to all of the
libraries associated with, and including gtk for the production of a
commercial product?

I would like to write several programs that would be nice to have, and I
need to eat.

I'm hoping that it's possible so that I can code using gtk and still be
able to sell the resultant executables without being forced to give my
code away or include any object files.

I just want to make some shareware stuff that expires after like 30 days
of use after which a person can log onto a website, and register the
software for like $20.

Has anyone done this yet?  I saw nothing about it in the FAQs that I read.

wurzin@ywave.com

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