On 05/06/2016 07:01 PM, Lucas Levrel wrote: > Le 5 mai 2016, Andrew Robinson a écrit : >> 1) Because there are between 40 to 120Mb worth of libraries or their >> dependencies I would have to post on my website. > > It's not clear to me whether one has to distribute GTK if it's linked > statically, because one doesn't distribute the libs themselves. But I'm > no lawyer and didn't investigate the question (I don't distribute > publicly my small app). >
I'm not a lawyer, but: Part of the idea of the LGPL is, as I understand it, that the user can relink with a modified version of the library. Imagine party A gives an LGPL library only to party B who then distributes an app linking with the library to C. If B refuses C's request for the library's source code, C has no way to link to a modified version of the library. Therefore I believe you have to distribute the source code of the library version you used at least upon request. In particular, when linking statically, you also have to provide linkable object files or source code for _your_ application. I.e. you have to be able to provide source code for all LGPL portions no matter if you use MSYS2, MXE, Fedora packages or compile the dependencies yourself. There's no way around it. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
