The lgplv2 is one of the least understiod of the open source licenses in my
experience.

Anyhow, from my compliance lead on chromecast:

Content shell is statically linked. Details on where to get
appropriate source + object files for non-source parts can be found at
https://code.google.com/p/chromecast-mirrored-source/source/browse/README?repo=chromium&name=1.2
 On Oct 6, 2013 5:10 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10/6/2013 at 2:17 PM, "Cole Johnson" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >> which is LGPL
> > There's your answer. Nope.
>
> Could you elaborate? A huge chunk of code in third_party/WebKit is LGPL
> from what I see,
> and I'm no expert but I think you aren't allowed to static link to LGPL
> code without actually
> [1] releasing the source or all the objects to re-link to be compliant.
> Correct me if I am wrong.
>
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LGPLStaticVsDynamic
>
>
>

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