Re: How to send email without using email client
Re: How to send email without using email client
- Subject: Re: How to send email without using email client
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 09:38:17 -0700
On 9 May '08, at 8:08 AM, Buddy Kurz wrote:
The problem with that is that when I start reading the LGPL license,
my brain cells start dying...
This is a marginally successful 25 year old closed source commercial
application and I don't mind being a self taught programer but I
don't want to be a self taught lawyer (or brain surgeon).
The LGPL is pretty reasonable to work with, much more so than the
straight GPL. Given a choice I'll use BSD-type code, but I do use one
LGPL-licensed library in my current app.
The main things to be aware of are:
(1) The intent of the LGPL is to make sure that any user of your app
who wants to make changes to that library, can do so and use the
changed version in your app (even if they don't have your app's source
code.) Which implies...
(2) You can use the library in any kind of app (closed-source, BSD,
whatever) as long as you dynamically link against the library. That
is, don't add the library source code directly to your target;
instead, use another target or project or makefile to build it into a
dylib or framework, then add that to your app's target. [If you
statically link it, that's when the viral nature of the GPL infects
your code and requires that you GPL it too.]
(3) You have to make the source code of that library available. If you
didn't make any changes to the source, it suffices to say somewhere
(like in your About box or read-me) that you used "FooLib 1.4.5". If
you did make changes, which haven't been integrated back into the
library itself, then you have to put your source code somewhere (like
as a zip file on your website, or even inside your app bundle) and
give a link to it.
—Jens
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