I concur. GPL requires complete disclosure of source code; LGPL allows you
to keep trade secrets.
Norm
At 02:45 PM 3/11/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>Dresner, Norman A. writes:
> > Based on a layman's reading of the LGPL, it's required to release source
> > code for any LGPL-software that you modify; you can simply provide URL's
> > pointing to the source of unmodified LGPL-code. It is not required
that you
> > release source code for any of your own programs that are distributed in
> > binary form.
> >
> > If the (L)GPL code you incorporate is linked into the binary, then the
> > preceding paragraph applies separately to the linked-libraries and your
own
> > code.
>
>Iy I understand these licenses correctly, you can link against LGPL'ed
>code and keep your program closed - only the source of the library
>needs to be distributed (v.s.).
>
>With GPL it is differentm though: If you link to GPL'ed code, the
>whole program is covered by GPL ! (That's why LGPL was put into life.)
>
>Jochen
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