To me, this section appears to be about the LGPL library; so if you are using an LGPL library, you cannot obsfucate in your (possibly modified) version of it, nor prevent people debugging the library.
Sounds to me like jobsworth lawyers -- either they can spend time understand something or they can just say no which is the safer cause of action for them. Phil Colin Fleming <colin.mailingl...@gmail.com> writes: > At least one company (mine at the time) had a problem with using LGPL > software because of the clause where you explicitly allow reverse > engineering of your product in order to use a different version of the LGPL > library. That's enough to give any corporate lawyer the screaming heebie > jeebies, not to mention the possibility of having to support your product > with users running random versions of some of the libraries you depend on. > A ridiculous prospect? Maybe, but the LGPL very explicitly allows it and > forces acceptance of those terms, so clearly someone is anticipating doing > it. > > > On 13 November 2013 11:25, John Gabriele <jmg3...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 11:30:23 AM UTC-5, Sean Corfield wrote: >>> >>> It's also worth >>> pointing out that a lot of US companies won't use GPL-licensed >>> software (and won't pay for a closed source version), and many aren't >>> comfortable with LGPL either. >>> >> >> I don't see why a company would have any problem at all with *using* >> LGPL'd software, even in a product. However, I can see the possible >> complaints if they wanted to *modify* it and then distribute their modified >> version (since that would then require distributing the modified source >> along with it). >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clojure" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- -- Phillip Lord, Phone: +44 (0) 191 222 7827 Lecturer in Bioinformatics, Email: phillip.l...@newcastle.ac.uk School of Computing Science, http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/phillip.lord Room 914 Claremont Tower, skype: russet_apples Newcastle University, twitter: phillord NE1 7RU -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
