On 8 January 2011 10:21, Vincent Torri <vincent.torri_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Graeme Burton <graeme_burton_1_at_yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
>>
>> I'm using Visual Studio 2005.
>>
>> I'm using the wcecomp library of Maurice Kalinowski, and I had to make a
>> few minor changes to the properties as I'm trying to build a static library
>> rather than a DLL.
>>
>> The code compiles and builds without error, but doesn't run properly,
>> which prompted my questions about unit tests.
>>
>> As I said, I'll document all the changes I made once I've got it working.
>
> I just looked at wcecompat and remarked that it is released under the LGPL
> licence. libcurl is released under the MIT/X  based licence. Which means
> that any code that is using wcecompat will be LGPL.

This is not true. The LGPL says:

[...]
6. As an exception to the Sections above, you may also combine or link
a "work that uses the Library" with the Library to produce a work
containing portions of the Library, and distribute that work under
terms of your choice, provided that the terms permit modification of
the work for the customer's own use and reverse engineering for
debugging such modifications.
[...]

"... distribute that work under terms of your choice ..." means it
does not have to be LGPL, but of course there are restrictions.

Also, http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html says: "[...] using
the Lesser GPL permits use of the library in proprietary
programs[...]"

Please feel free to ignore my opinion, though :) I am not a lawyer.

-- 
Michael Wood <esiotrot_at_gmail.com>
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