From: Lyle Johnson Date: 2004-08-06T06:38:24+09:00 Subject: Re: Amazing GUI toolkit with visual designer & Ruby Integration On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 04:41:28 +0900, H. Simpson wrote: > Regarding Fox-Toolkit, look at the bottom of their license page and read > the explanation the Fox-Toolkit LGPL Addendum: > > http://www.fox-toolkit.org/license.html > > "Static linking with a modified copy of the Library, however, would > deny the community the benefit of these modifications, as these > modifications would now be locked up inside a closed binary executable, > so therefore we must insist on the original GNU Lesser General Public > License when the Library has been modified." Yes. If you're statically linking your application, which is a "work based on the library", FOX's license reverts to the terms of the original LGPL. > *TRANSLATION:* if you modify Fox-Toolkit and statically link it to your > multi-million dollar commercial application, then you must release not > only the changes to Fox-Toolkit but your commercial application too in > order to comply with the terms of the license! No. See point 6, especially point 6(a), of the LGPL. You must provide your user with the ability to re-link, but you can provide your "work that uses the library" as object code and not source code.