Yeah I'd tell the lawyers to read the LGPL more carefully. Or maybe get new lawyers who are familiar with the topic.
Here's a useful link in plain language, in case your lawyers are having trouble with legalese :) https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html -- John Abraham HBA Specto Incorporated [email protected] 403-232-1060 (unattended during the pandemic) 403-383-8024 (personal cell phone) > On Feb 24, 2021, at 8:57 AM, Daniele Varrazzo <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 at 16:55, Hunt, Brian C. > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have recently been told by outside council (lawyers) that our organization >> is unable to use LGPL licensed packages in software we plan to sell. > > Your lawyer is wrong. > >> Seems to suggest the purpose of the LGPL license is not to prevent the >> intended use we have in mind (selling the web app to be hosted locally at >> other organizations). Instead it is to prevent other from building off the >> drivers and then selling those drivers. > > Correct. You are not forbidden to use psycopg2 in a closed source program. > > -- Daniele > >
