[hpsdr] some help

[Murray Lang]

This might be easier to read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License

To me this says you can distribute the LGPL libusb DLL in your 
proprietary application without distributing source but you can't just 
put a facade on it and distribute a I2phdUsbLib.DLL USB library.

Murray - VK6HL (Not a lawyer either)

Bill Tracey wrote:
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> I'd say your  interpretation of the LGPL  is correct.   I will point 
> out I am not a lawyer, so my interpretation of the LGPL may not be 
> worth very much.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill
>
>
> At 10:48 AM 7/1/2009, Alberto I2PHD wrote:
>> Bill Tracey wrote:
>>>
>>> <svn://206.216.146.154/svn/repos_sdr_hpsdr/trunk/OzyUtil-NativeWin>svn://206.216.146.154/svn/repos_sdr_hpsdr/trunk/OzyUtil-NativeWin 
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Bill (kd5tfd)
>> Bill,
>>
>>    thanks. May I ask you a clarification about the LGPL licensing 
>> scheme ?
>> I tried to read the full text of the license, but there are some 
>> legal(-ish) terms,
>> so I am not sure if I got correctly.
>>
>> Please confirm if the following is true :
>>
>> I can use the LGPLed libusb DLL as an external DLL whose functions are
>> called by a program proprietary, but not commercial. With this I mean 
>> a program
>> that is of free use, but whose source code is not released.
>>
>> The libusb DLL would be used as it is, with no modifications done to it.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> 73  Alberto  I2PHD
>
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