Re: [libgpiod][PATCH V9 0/8] libgpiod: Add Rust bindings

[Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 9:12 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 11:29 AM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > One other thing is the license of the rust bindings themselves - I'm
> > not a lawyer but it seems to me that if you link against LGPL code
> > statically, your code must be licensed under an LGPL-compatible
> > license.
>
> Nope. The LGPL was created exactly for clarifying and avoiding that
> situation.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License
>
> It is a common misunderstanding that GPL overall has anything to do
> with whether you link things this or that way, the legal term used is
> "derivative work" and the meaning of that can only be determined in
> court. The meaning can depend on the intent of the author and misc
> legal ramifications.
>
> In many ways LGPL is unnecessary, but it was created exactly to make
> non-legal people less weary about situations relating to linking of
> libraries.
>
> It is fine to link an LGPL statically into whatever software, but one needs
> to provide header files and linkable static objects (.a files) of the library
> to the user.
>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij

Thanks Linus! Makes perfect sense.

Bart