On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Michael Wood <esiotrot_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

ha, indeed. Thanks for the clarification.

Vincent Torri

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