On Friday 23 January 2004 00:46, expatriate wrote:
OK. I think I get the point . This may not be a battle I can win. Now I need to find out what libraries are LGPL. We manufacture high-precision multi-million dollar equipment and our clients are not at all interested in the source code. However, our competitors might be and it would not be good for us to reveal the source code to them (via the usual shenanigans of employee/vendor revolving doors). It seems to me that if we develop a million-line program that uses pthreads we are forced to release the entire source to our vendors. Check mate from our legal department.
I think you'll find most of the base stuff, like glibc, is LGPL. Note that apps like Oracle's database, Lotus Domino and other "up-market" stuff isn't GPLed. You can get pretty far by using the LGPL stuff. And if you're developing a GUI for your app, gnome/gtk is also LGPLed