Re: LGPL

Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > > K, that's what confused me as I got the impression it was ok to require
> > > LGPL libraries but not GPL.
> > 
> > I think the answer isn't clear on that one.
> 
> If that is not clear then what is the difference between a LGPL lib and a
> GPL one? To copy code from said lib into pg could never be allowed, but
> just linking to it surely can not be a problem.
> 
> LGPL libs are used all over by all kinds of closed sorce applications and 
> that's the whole idea of making things (like glib) into LGPL instead of 
> GPL. For example Acrobat Reader 7 for unix uses GTK+ and it is LGPL. 
> Acrobat Reader surely do require GTK+.

Maybe LGPL is OK, but I think we will try to avoid a dependency on LGPL
code if we can help it.

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