Accualy it is Rene who is right here. The important part of the LGPL is section 6. It says (long quote, just so that we discuss same thing ,)
"As an exception to the Sections above, you may also combine or link a "work that uses the Library" with the Library to produce a work containing portions of the Library, 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. ... Also, you must do one of these things: a) Accompany the work with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code for the Library including whatever changes were used in the work (which must be distributed under Sections 1 and 2 above); and, if the work is an executable linked with the Library, with the complete machine-readable "work that uses the Library", as object code and/or source code, so that the user can modify the Library and then relink to produce a modified executable containing the modified Library. (It is understood that the user who changes the contents of definitions files in the Library will not necessarily be able to recompile the application to use the modified definitions.) b) Use a suitable shared library mechanism for linking with the Library. A suitable mechanism is one that (1) uses at run time a copy of the library already present on the user's computer system, rather than copying library functions into the executable, and (2) will operate properly with a modified version of the library, if the user installs one, as long as the modified version is interface-compatible with the version that the work was made with. ... [clipped away c,d,e] " As is default right now libcrystalspace is a static library, which means that option b outlined above is not fullfilled. So to comply with LGPL you have to comply with option a and distribute your application either in source or object file format, both of which might not be wanted or possible (I myself prefer not to do this for example :) The problem this causes is a known one and the reason work have begun on shared building of libcrystalspace; however at the moment none of the devs seems to be intrested enough or have time enough to look into the issues that still exists. Patches that fixes it are most welcome! :) (Or you can wait and hope someone else fixes it...) -Marten Quoting Chris Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 7/5/06, Rene Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> More clearly... How do I write a commercial application that links to >> the CS code without releasing object files or source code for my >> application. It's the classical LGPL question, which is usually answered >> by "use dynamic linking". And which is explicitly stated in the LGPL as >> the only allowed use case for closed-source applications. > > > You misunderstand LGPL. GPL is the one where you have to do dynamic linking, > not LGPL. The LGPL only pertains to the library, and doesn't pertain to code > you write that uses that library. I'm making a commercial game currently > using Crystal Space. There is no licensing issues here. There is nothing you > need to 'do' to be able to refraing from releasing the source code. However, > should you modify Crystal Space in *any* way, you need to re-release those > changes. > > For more information: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html > > --Chris > > -- > Christopher S. Case > Project Head > The Seventh Game: Precursors > http://games.g33xnexus.com/precursors > (716) 785 - 5553(Cellphone) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > "To err is human. To forgive, divine. > To fix mistakes, now that's an Engineer." > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Crystal-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crystal-main Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
