LGPL is less restrictive than GPL. It allows you to link your software
against shared libraries (in this case GTK) and not to publish your
source code. When you distribute your software, you may include copy of
GTK binary libraries installer and it's source code.
Madars
On 11/05/15 16:45, Edward Ned Harvey (mono) wrote:
From: mono-list-boun...@lists.ximian.com [mailto:mono-list-
boun...@lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Elmar Haneke
Gtk is an multi-platform-toolkit, you can use it on all important
Desktop systems: Windows, MacOS and Linux.
The only problem is
... Let me stop you right there. Because to me, the only problem is the fact
that GTK is not natively included with either windows, mac, or mobile OSes, and
due to LGPL, it's very unclear if you can legally bundle it with your
application.
GTK is LGPL, not GPL. But you need a lawyer to understand if that's ok for you, because
the GPL itself is one long-ass license, and the "Lesser" part almost doubles
its length. It's not an attractive license, like MIT.
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