Re: [xSocket-develop] Licensing question

[Gregor R. <gre...@gm...>]

Hi Mike,

the license of xSocket is LGPL. You can bundle the lib with your commercial product. You do not have to open source your application. 

cheers
Gregor






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> Datum: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:55:24 +0100
> Von: Mike Cardwell <xs...@li...>
> An: xso...@li...
> Betreff: [xSocket-develop] Licensing question

> Hi,
> 
> I'm building a commercial application which wont be open sourced. I'm a
> little confused about the licensing of XSocket and whether or not I can
> use it in my app. If I were to use XSocket, would I have to open source
> the rest of my app?
> 
> I'm thinking that the license just means that if I were to make any
> changes to the XSocket library, I'd have to release the source code for
> those changes. Is that right?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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