On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Martin Sustrik <[email protected]> wrote:

> IANAL, but as far as I understand, LGPLv3 works in a following way:
>
> 1. The code is licensed under GPL (see COPYING file)
> 2. If linked as a library, there's an amendment to the license (see
> COPYING.LESSER) which grants you some additional rights.
>
> In other words, if you don't use 0mq as library, you are bound by GPL with
> no extra rights.

It's rather more general than that. The LGPL is the GPL plus some
additional terms. The GPL allows you to remove any additional terms
when you redistribute (L)GPL-licensed code. So you can redistribute
any LGPL code under the GPL, no matter how you use that code.

However, our software is explicitly licensed as a library, under the
LGPL. This patch is inconsistent with our license terms, IMHO.

-Pieter
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