quirky LGPL - GPL issue

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Wed Sep 15 03:03:55 UTC 2004


Arjen Lentz scripsit:

> The interesting situation this creates is... what happens when including
> a GPL library into this app? In summary:
>  - LGPL app.
>  - GPL lib.
> 
> Feel free to stand on your head for this exercise ;-)
> 
> Does the resulting (complete) derivative work have to be GPL? 

Absolutely so, at least according to the FSF's interpretation fo the GPL.

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