[cad-linux] Re: openDWG toolkit perl wrapper: GPL?

I went through something similar a few months back, and the problem is not 
with the OD people but rather with the FSF people.  From first hand experience 
I 
can tell you that if you want to link the OD libraries into your open source 
code you will need to do so under a modified GPL, with the modification being 
you give specific permission for the end user to link the OD libs with your 
otherwise GPL code.

The program I was working on was specifically written to provide a human 
usable interface to the OD libraries and I once wrote that it seemed kind of 
silly 
to give an end user specific permission to do what the program was actually 
written for.   Big mistake - the FSF people have absolutely no sense of humor 
when it comes to their license.  I hindsight I can see their point - they are 
trying to protect the end user as much as the program author, and all the while 
fighting off the big commercial boys.  

I don't know the specifics about the LGPL license, but at one point I was 
looking at the MIT license and that seemed pretty liberal.

Andy

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