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Re: PostgreSQL, LGPL and GPL.

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Karen Hill wrote:
> John Hasler wrote:
> 
>>> Npgsql is LGPL.  It means you must release the source of Npgsql when
>>> distributing it, and if you modify Npgsql, but not have to release the
>>> source under the (L)GPL of the software that calls Npgsql functions?
>> Pretty much, but you must provide your software in a form that can be
>> relinked.
>>
> 
> What does that mean?  In .NET, you add a reference to the Npgsql dll,
> and then add "Using Npgsql;" to the top of the class you want to use
> Npgsql in.  So if you wrote something like this it would have to go
> under the LGPL?:

What he means is if you modified npgsql.dll itself you would have to
provide those modifications back. Not your code, just the code that
modifies npgsql.

J



> 
> Using Npgsql;
> namespace foo{
> class foobar
> {
>   foobar()
> {
>    String connectionString = "";
>    NpgsqlConnection conn = new NpgsqlConnection(connectionString);
> }
> 
> }
> 
> }
> 
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