From: Lyle Johnson Date: 2004-08-06T10:36:52+09:00 Subject: Re: Amazing GUI toolkit with visual designer & Ruby Integration On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 08:21:26 +0900, H. Simpson wrote: > Lyle, thanks for clarifying. > > From SECTION 6 of LGPL which applies to any application that is > statically linked to a modified version of the Fox-Toolkit: > > "[...] and distribute that work under terms of your choice, provided > that the terms permit modification of the work for the customer's own > use and reverse engineering for debugging such modifications." > > The terms of the LGPL does not allow software that are derivatives of > LGPL libraries to prohibit reverse engineering. True. > Selling software usually means licensing it... OK, and these are perfectly reasonable objections on your part. The only reason I expended all of this effort was a previous statement (many posts past now) in which you said, "I don't mind giving away changes I make to Fox-Toolkit but being required to give away the commercial application source that statically links to a modified Fox-Toolkit is something that bars me from using it." As I and others have noted, statically linking a commercial application to an LGPL'd library does *not* require you to give away the source code for that commercial application. You are, however, absolutely correct to note (in your follow-up posts) that the LGPL does require some degree of reverse-engineering which may be unacceptable. Thanks for letting me clarify my position (and for expanding on yours). Best of luck with your project(s).