It's the third variation that makes no sense to me. I just don't think
that's correct. Jmol is a library. All they are required to do is publish
the changes to the Jmol library. The whole purpose of "Lesser" is that they
don't need to publish their code. That's all. Features that involve "new
ways of communicating with or interacting with ...." where is this last
part coming from: "...new features in LGPL work must work and be
understandable and extendable to another user without access to
closed-source work."? Why do you say any of that? What specifically are you
imagining there? Is that language from the license?
Bob
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Stephen Bannasch <
stephen.banna...@deanbrook.org> wrote:
>
>
> The third variation I described is when publisher adds a new feature to
> Jmol code that (at that point in time) only works in conjunction with a
> feature in publishers closed-source code.
>
> At 12:58 PM -0400 10/14/12, Stephen Bannasch wrote:
> >If closed source project extends LGPL work and these new features in LGPL
> library involve new ways of communicating with orinteracting with
> closed-source part of work then new features in LGPL work must work and be
> understandable and extendable to another user without access to
> closed-source work.
>
> In this case publisher will need to create and release additional code to
> make the new feature understandable and functional. This can be done by
> releasing part of their closed-source code OR by recreating separate code
> to make new Jmol feature compilable and usable without releasing their
> closed-source code.
>
> These kind of subtle details are why the LGPL is hard to understand and
> why most commercial publishers will not use LGPL-licensed code.
>
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