Re: LGPL

[Norman Stevens <norman arcady u-net com>]

On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Sergio A. Kessler wrote:

> James Henstridge <james@daa.com.au> el día Mon, 12 Apr 1999 08:41:38 +0800 
> (WST), escribió:
> 
> >There is no problem using the LGPL.  If someone wants to statically link
> >your LGPL code into a commercial executable, they are also required to
> >distribute the unlinked object code so that users can (at their
> >discretion) link the commercial program with a newer version of the LGPL
> >code.
> 
> the problem is that our compiler can't do object code so the users
> can link again, and more importantly we don't want to force the
> author to do this.
> I know that this is difficult to understand for a non-Delphi 
> programmer, but we have years of doing things this way without 
> problems.
 
If you have your own compiler then something like the following
(which I believe comes from the GPL libio library).

As a special exception, if you link this library with files
compiled with a GNU compiler to produce an executable, this does not cause
the resulting executable to be covered by the GNU General Public License.
This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why
the executable file might be covered by the GNU General Public License.

Norman