From: Václav Slavík Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 01:12:45 +0000 (+0000) Subject: LGPL comments X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/commitdiff_plain/9922de0b73dfff34d9cfc7e7cf93d7294fb11f09 LGPL comments git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@5725 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775 --- diff --git a/docs/readme.txt b/docs/readme.txt index 296b19d2a8..9562855457 100644 --- a/docs/readme.txt +++ b/docs/readme.txt @@ -171,10 +171,24 @@ For licensing information, please see the files: Although this may seem complex, it is there to allow authors of proprietary/commercial applications to use wxWindows in addition to those writing GPL'ed applications. In summary, -the licence is L-GPL plus a clause allowing unrestricted +the licence is LGPL plus a clause allowing unrestricted distribution of application binaries. To answer a FAQ, you don't have to distribute any source if you wish to write -commercial applications using wxWindows. +commercial applications using wxWindows. + +However, if you distribute wxGTK or wxMotif (with Lesstif) version +of your application, don't forget that it is linked against +GTK+ (or Lesstif) which is covered by LGPL *without* exception +notice. Under Linux systems your app is probably linked +against LGPL glibc as well. Please read carefuly LGPL, section 6. +which describes conditions for distribution of closed source applications +linked against LGPL library. Basically you should link dynamicaly and +include source code of LGPL libraries with your product (unless it is +already present in user's system - like glibc usually is). + +If compiled with --enable-odbc (Unix only), wxWindows library will +contain iODBC library which is covered by LGPL. + Documentation -------------