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Re:XSV: A fast CSV command-line toolkit written in Rust by jcelerier on Monday September 10, 2018 @05:45AM (#17950559)
> With LGPL, you can't statically link the library though.

no, that's tiresomely false. You can link proprietary code statically with LGPL code. LGPL does not give a shit about static or dynamic libraries because LGPL is not a language-specific license.

Right from the source: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LGPLStaticVsDynami...

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Re:XSV: A fast CSV command-line toolkit written in Rust by littlestymaar on Monday September 10, 2018 @07:24AM (#17950934)
Thanks for the link. The nuance I was missing is that you can distribute statically-linked LGPL library as long as you provide a way for your user to override the chosen library with his own version of the library.
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