[xmlvm-users] LGPL Static Link exception

[Sascha H. <sa...@xm...>]

Hi guys,


we've had some discussions recently on the mailing list concerning the
compatibility of the LGPL license with the Apple AppStore. The
conclusion is that the LGPL is mostly fine, but requires an additional
linking exception from our side in order to make it bullet-proof for
you.


So here is a proposal for an addition to the LGPL license, which
grants you this exception for your apps. It's taken from an open
source project that already uses it, so we didn't make it up
ourselves.


If I don't receive any objections, we will put this into our LICENSE
file and therefore make it official:



As a special exception to the GNU Lesser General Public License, you
may link, statically or dynamically, a "work that uses the Library"
with a publicly distributed version of the Library to produce an
executable file containing portions of the Library, and distribute that
executable file under terms of your choice, without any of the additional
requirements listed in clause 6 of the GNU Lesser General Public License.
By "a publicly distributed version of the Library", we mean either the
unmodified Library as distributed by the authors, or a modified version
of the Library that is distributed under the conditions defined in clause
3 of the GNU Lesser General Public License.  This exception does not
however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be
covered by the GNU Lesser General Public License.


Thanks
// Sascha, on behalf of the XMLVM core team