* Posts by Henrik

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Microsoft yanks Windows code on GPL violation claim

Henrik

re: GPL/LGPL @James Butler

Rubbish!

You are not allowed to pull out snippets of LGPL code and use it in a proprietary software without releasing the proprietary software under a free license!

The difference between GPL and LGPL is that you can link to the LGPL binaries from proprietary code without "open sourcing" the proprietary code though you still need to give access to the LGPL part of the code. GPL does not allow this.The LGPL is a mechanism intended to allow closed source software to use open-source libraries.

Henrik