Re:Why I replaced MIT with copyleft license for Nodemailer
by Crespyl on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:58AM
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The trick is in what constitutes "combination", particularly re. static vs. dynamic linking.
My understanding is that, at least with LGPL, you can have a closed source program distributed with a LGPL shared object/dll (plus license text) that gets loaded dynamically, but I don't think you can do that with GPL proper.
Static linking (IIUC) is right out (for closed source projects).
My understanding is that, at least with LGPL, you can have a closed source program distributed with a LGPL shared object/dll (plus license text) that gets loaded dynamically, but I don't think you can do that with GPL proper.
Static linking (IIUC) is right out (for closed source projects).