Licensing

Hans Åberg haberg-1 at telia.com
Thu Sep 27 16:19:01 UTC 2018


> On 27 Sep 2018, at 16:14, Mike Lodder <mike at sovrin.org> wrote:
> 
> The Apache 2.0 license has patent termination and indemnification
> provisions that GPL or LGPL do not have.
> We initially do not plan to modify the GMP code, just to include it in our
> code. The problem with LGPL is not that I link to it dynamically, but when
> I must link statically, which is what happens when developing for mobile
> market. Apple requires all libraries by statically linked.

It suffices to release the object code of your program in such a way that GMP can be modified, re-linked and tested [1].

1. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LGPLStaticVsDynamic




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