From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2004-08-06T12:45:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Free(real Free) GUI toolkits

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 11:21:41AM +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> Mmm. You're both wrong, in that Rando's statement is incomplete. The
> LGPL also requires that one provide a relinkable target for statically
> linked binaries. That is, one must deliver the .lib files as well as
> the .exe so that the person who then wants to further modify the
> LGPLed library may then relink their modified version of the library
> with yours.

From what I understand, the purpose of that requirement isn't there so
that you can relink modified versions of the library, but rather so that
you can relink with a new version of the library when it is released.
I think this is perfectly reasonable; if a commercial application is
statically linked with an LGPL library that is found to have a serious
security hole, it is a good thing that I can download the new version of
the library from the author and relink.

(not that I've ever done this, but it's nice to know that I can).

Paul