Re: [Opensync-devel] libsynthesis and vformats

[Chris F. <cd...@fo...>]

On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 03:42:54PM +0100, Lukas Zeller wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2011, at 15:33 , Michael Banck wrote:
> > In any case, having it LGPL should make it possible to develop and sell
> > proprietary products on top of libsynthesis, as long as you don't need
> > to modify libsynthesis itself for it.
> 
> Except that for iOS, which happens to be the source of funding for
> my work on libsynthesis, that does not work, because iOS apps need
> to be statically linked with all libraries (except those provided by
> the system).

It is my understanding that LGPL libraries can be linked statically
to closed source applications, as long as all the object files of the
closed source app are provided along with the LGPL library, so that
the recipient can re-link to a modified LGPL library.

Other library licenses may be blocking this, but not the LGPL.

- Chris