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Anonymous

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licence question
« on: August 27, 2005, 04:47:43 pm »
Hi,

I have a question about the licence the LCL is using, LGPL. If I write a new user interface control, I have to inherit from TWinControl or TCustomControl.

Is it a violation of the licence if the new control I write is closed source?

Marc

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RE: licence question
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2005, 02:09:32 pm »
afaik not
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Anonymous

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RE: licence question
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2005, 09:27:16 pm »
You can see in the below text from the LGPL that there are conditions where you must license it under the LGPL and a situation where you don't have to.  This can be a touchy subject.  Taking something under an open source license and then deriving from it and changing the license is something I would try to stay away from.  However, I'm not the copyright holder of the component code so it's not really up to me.

From the LGPL text

2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Library or any portion
of it, thus forming a work based on the Library, and copy and
distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1
above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:

    a) The modified work must itself be a software library.

    b) You must cause the files modified to carry prominent notices
    stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.

    c) You must cause the whole of the work to be licensed at no
    charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.

    d) If a facility in the modified Library refers to a function or a
    table of data to be supplied by an application program that uses
    the facility, other than as an argument passed when the facility
    is invoked, then you must make a good faith effort to ensure that,
    in the event an application does not supply such function or
    table, the facility still operates, and performs whatever part of
    its purpose remains meaningful.

    (For example, a function in a library to compute square roots has
    a purpose that is entirely well-defined independent of the
    application.  Therefore, Subsection 2d requires that any
    application-supplied function or table used by this function must
    be optional: if the application does not supply it, the square
    root function must still compute square roots.)

These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole.  If
identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Library,
and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those
sections when you distribute them as separate works.  But when you
distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based
on the Library, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of
this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the
entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote
it.

 

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