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Re: LGPL vs GPL
- From: Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay at adobe dot com>
- To: Shail Aditya <shail dot aditya at synfora dot com>, gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: Shail Aditya <shail dot aditya at synfora dot com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 23:03:29 -0500
- Subject: Re: LGPL vs GPL
Hi Shail,
It sounds like you are seeking legal advice.
I recommend you either read <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html> very carefully and draw your own conclusions, or have a legal expert give you his/her professional assessment.
By the way, there are a few portions of GCC that are GPL, not LGPL. I would be very surprised if you have incorporated any of those portions into your own applications (unless your application is a debugger, or compiler, which intimately relies upon GCC technology).
Note -- I'm not blowing off your questions! Your questions are very serious, and as such I am suggesting that you get either expert opinion, or draw your own conclusions, instead of culling (perhaps) incorrect or inaccurate or misleading answers from the volunteer participants on this forum.
I don't think asking the members of this forum for their opinion on legal matters is a good basis for making legal decisions. Since, as far as I am aware, we are not lawyers; we are not GNU associates; we are not involved in the creation of the LGPL -- we're just your average people trying to help each other out with GCC issues.
Sincerely,
--Eljay