[Coin-discuss] COIN-OR licences again...

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 22:31 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

> The most common concern with the GPL is the requirement that the "work
> as a whole" be licensed under the GPL if any part is, even if that part
> is only linked through a clean, well-defined interface.  That makes
> creation of all kinds of interesting combinations of tools impossible to
> distribute in ready-to-use form, as you are aware.

The LGPL does not impose this restriction.  (That's the primary
distinction between the GPL and the LGPL.)  Whether you consider that a
Good Thing depends on your objectives and your motivation for choosing a
particular license.  But distributing binaries linking LGPL- and
CPL-licensed code is not a problem, AFAIK.
-- 
                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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