[M3devel] License compatibility

[Dragiša Durić]

GPL is not LGPL. No same restrictions apply. 

LGPL means you have to link LGPL library dynamically so your program will use system's current version, presumably updateable as update becomes available, regardless of your actions.

For GPL libraries, you are probably right.

On Jul 1, 2012, at 7:39 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 08:45:17PM -0400, Antony Hosking wrote:
>> Not compatible.  FSF official. 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> So this presumably means it is impossible to distribute binary for any
> Modula 3 program that uses a GPL library even if you include source code.
> Because presumably the basic M3 run-time system is under the M3 license and therefore incompatible.
> 
> Which means it's practically impossible to provide such a program to anyone
> that doesn't understand how to use a compiler, which is most Windows users.
> 
> Or is there some wiggle room somewhere?
> 
> -- hendrik
> 
>> 
>> On Jun 30, 2012, at 20:39, Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I've heard, ages ago, that the SRC was not considered compatible with 
>>> the GPL.  I'd really like to know if this is true.  Not whether it 
>>> should be compatible, not whether people were afraid of it being 
>>> incompatible... not whether some people think it's cmopatible, but 
>>> whether it *is* compatible.
>>> 
>>> Has anyone ever got a definitive answer to this question?
>>> 
>>> If not, should I ask the FSF explicitly?
>>> 
>>> -- hendrik
>>>