Re: LGPL question

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On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 09:48 +0000, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> > if I freely distribute the GTK+ libraries alongwith my
> > executables as I have been doing, then I am then required to distribute my
> > source code as well (or document how it can be accessed).
> 
> Yes. Either distribute the source code for all LGPL components on the
> same media or website as your own software, or include an offer to
> provide the sources. (It is not enough to just provide a pointer to
> the sources on some other website, for instance ftp.gnome.org.)

Priya's question was not completely clear. Priya, in case you were
asking whether using GTK+ (as a dynamically-loaded shared library)
requires you to provide the source code of your _application_, then the
answer is No. If GTK+ was GPL (rather than LGPL) then the answer would
be Yes.
 
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