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Re:Mongoose OS – An Open Source Operating System for the Int... by mbel on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:50PM (#14960465)
You read the previous statement backwards. OP meant: dynamic linking allows you to use LGPL libraries with proprietary applications; to use GPL libraries in your application you have to make your application free even if you are linking dynamically.
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Re:Mongoose OS – An Open Source Operating System for the Int... by yebyen on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @02:13PM (#14960776)
Yes, but neither one prevents you from linking proprietary libraries into your OSS application.

> .dll won't help with GPL, only with LGPL (IANAL)

Was pretty much totally ambiguous about what exactly was meant.

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Re:Mongoose OS – An Open Source Operating System for the Int... by yebyen on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @10:21AM (#14969141)
Am I wrong?
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