Thanks to all those who responded. I got the information I needed. - priya -----Original Message----- From: Paul Davis [mailto:paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 7:42 PM To: Priya Suryanarayanan Cc: Murray Cumming; Tor Lillqvist; gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: LGPL question On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 18:29 +0800, Priya Suryanarayanan wrote: > After reading all the responses, I am still a little confused (I may > have misunderstood the subtleties here). On the one hand, I have > understood that since I am using dynamic GTK+ libraries untouched, > therefore my application can be closed-source. correct. > On the other hand, I am distributing the libraries (I am not asking > the user to install it themselves). Can this be construed as a > modification to GTK, thus requiring me to offer access to the sources? no. > Final question: If I do have to provide access to GTK sources, I > cannot just point the users to the GTK.org website. I must actually > maintain a set of sources, attempt to compile them into .dll's, and > point the user to them? you are required only to offer them source. you don't even have to offer them a build system, though that would be nice since you got one with the source. basically, you just have offer them the same bundle of source code that you started with, or would have started with if you had built the libraries yourself. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
