Re: [Cppcms-users] Proposal to release CppCMS 2.0 and migrate to C++11

[Joerg S. <jo...@be...>]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 04:09:29PM +0200, Stanimir Mladenov wrote:
> There is one app I made for clients (since I do outsourcing) that I
> had to make it use dynamic linkage, because I think that the LGPL
> requires it.

The LGPL generally allows two ways of distributing a program linked
against it:
(1) You can provide a dynamically linked application and the dynamic
version of the LGPL library. On request, you have to provide the sources
for the LGPL library and all potential modifications.

(2) You can provide a statically linked application and the object files
necessary for relinking the application with a patched version of the
library. You can assume binary compatibility of the ABI. For the LGPL
library, the same considerations as under (1) apply.

As usual, IANAL and if you are not sure after careful study of the
license text, you might want to contact one for clarification.

E.g. in my case, all patches I am using in my version of CppCMS are
either submitted already or public in pkgsrc. One of them, the generic
filter support in templates is currently not upstream or committed in
pkgsrc, need to fix that at some point. But Artyom got a mail with it at
some point, so the license obligation are fulfilled :)

Joerg