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Re:GPL vs BSD, a matter of sustainability by jrmg on Friday February 08, 2013 @08:00AM (#5187605)
That's not entirely true. The LGPL requires that the end user be able to re-link the product with an API-compatible version of the LGPL-licensed library.

On platforms that support dynamic linking this is easy to allow - just package the LGPLed library as a dynamic library the user can easily replace. On platforms that don't (e.g. iOS) it's harder, and I believe it's still 'gray' what's required in practise - or even if the requirement is possible to satisfy. Some will say if you supply object files so that the end user can relink, that's fine.

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Re:GPL vs BSD, a matter of sustainability by IWentToTheWoods on Friday February 08, 2013 @12:34PM (#5189005)
>Some will say if you supply object files so that the end user can relink, that's fine.

It's not "some will say"; supplying object files for your code and source for the LGPL library is specifically listed as an option in the LGPL itself.

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Re:GPL vs BSD, a matter of sustainability by jrmg on Friday February 08, 2013 @01:34PM (#5189359)
yes - but that option is followed with "...so that the user can modify the Library and then relink to produce a modified executable containing the modified Library."

[LGPL 2.1, section 6a]

Can an iOS user do that? I would not like to depend on saying "Yes" to a court.

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