I want to use 7-Zip within my proprietary application. 7-Zip is LGPL Consider that within my application I call via its command line interface using system() something like this: system( "7-Zip -blah -blah" ); If I use 7-Zip this way do I have any obligations under the LGPL? If I wand to distribute 7-Zips' 7z.dll and 7z.exe with my a...
Hi, I'm using a GPL library in my closed source app. The library providers provide a FOSS exception where a number of licenses are acceptable to them, including LGPL. So I was thinking of writing a LGPL licensed wrapper on top of the GPL library and using the library through the LGPL wrapper in my app. Is this the appropriate way to do...
I'm working on an iPhone app which uses the Zbar library which is under the LGPL licence. What I'd like to know is what I need to give someone if they request a copy of the code under this licence for my iPhone app? I've been told they are in the build folder and also that they are .o files. I've found some of those in the armv6 and arm...
Hey all! First and foremost the opinions expressed about the licenses here are only mine and the information I have interpreted about the licenses so far. I could be wrong, but I hope not. Feel free to correct me otherwise. :-) Over the years I've released perhaps about 10 projects via open-source, which to this date are ...
Is there a free (LGPL or similar) PHP library that draws line, bar, ... and pie charts to PNG / SVG graphics or PDF files? I need that charts for a PDF output module. As it will be used in a commercial product, it needs to be under LGPL or any similar license. Already searched a lot, but found nothing that is really usable, so far. ...
I am interested in creating closed source applications for my Nokia N900 using Qt Creator and the LGPL License, but I'm unfamiliar with how exactly I'm able to do this. I understand that I should use dynamic links vs static links when creating my application, but I'm not certain how this is done when using Qt Creator. I'm under the impre...
I am considering extending a content management system which is licensed under the LGPL. My question is if I can rebrand the CMS. I'm only going to be charging for my customizations and implementation. I'm just wondering if I can brand it as PhilCMS (as an example). I'm just not really sure as I don't see anything regarding branding ...
Hello All, I want to clarify between GPL and LGPL licence. I have taken open source library which is under GPL licence. If i integrate it in my project and i sell in the market then i have to distribute my code to open source community right ? if i don't change any library code then also i have to distribute my code ? what are the othe...
I'm using a modified version of Botan from the Qt Creator 2.0 sources. The standard Botan distribution is under a FreeBSD license, and Qt Creator 2.0 is under LGPL (which means that version of Botan is under LGPL? or at least the 3 files Nokia added are?). If I remember correctly, according to the LGPL, if I change an LGPL licensed work,...
I am planning to use FLEE (www.flee.codeplex.com) as my expression evaluator. However, I believe that it is not being maintained. Does the LGPL add support for converting to another language? (VB->C#) And, I wan't to add features of .net numerics (specifically some functions) to this branch of flee. Can I Do that? (.net numerics is MIT...
I am looking for a library with following features: Minimalistics with Random Forest learning and classification LGPL licenced In C++ CMake build system - not compulsory So far Waffles looks good, any other contenders ? ...
I'd like to ask this question in two standpoints. As a library developer, I don't want my work to be used in source closed web apps while most web apps are source closed. (And they are also worthless to distribute, generally a web app is individual-dependent). The trendency of moving towards to cloud-computing, seems there will be less ...
In such a case what are the conditions that I need to fulfill to not violate GPL, LGPL, CC licences? Looking at wikipedia entry for CC, it seems I can use only CC-BY, and CC-SA license but I am not clear as to how and where in my book I need to add attribution for the author whose images (under CC-BY) I would use. It is also not clear th...
We're planning on using compiled FFmpeg binaries with our website. We use the conversion in a very minor way. We are not sharing our source code and are NOT including the source code of FFmpeg (or modifying it any way). We do not sell our software, only offer it as a commercial service. Has anyone else used FFmpeg similarly? If so, is t...
Hi all, I've recently been looking at Qt, and yes I should have started a long time ago... But the issue has come up that the prebuilt or self compiled .dlls, QtCore4.dll, QtGui4.dll, etc., are quite large. Since I must stay within the LGPL, is there a correct way to only link in what I need into the QtCore4.dll and QtGui4.dll files so...
There are quite a few LGPL Libraries that I use that have fallen out of maintenance and have no documentation. I found that a few of these libraries are extremely useful and they are all LGPL or MIT. Could I combine these libraries into my own library, released under LGPL and maintain those myself as a branch? Also, some of these librari...
Hello everyone, I was wondering if under the LGPL(v2.1) one could re-distribute a complete pre-compiled SDK that is linked to dynamically in my own project? Background: Qt is licensed under LGPL and many applications I develop are linking with it. More recently we created our own SDK that uses Qt. Now, other people may extend and write...
apparently its loosely copyleft? but I was wondering if anyone could sum up what all it requires. like.. I don't want my project to have to be open source. ...
I have two distinct projects: The Program which I want to release under the GPL license. The Plugin API: Plugins are written using interfaces in this API, and The Program uses to the API to communicate with plugins. I want to release The Plugin API with the LGPL license. One problem is that I would not want plugins to have to revea...
If I include code that is LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) does my overall project also have to be opensource? what all does LGPL include? ...