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Can MS legally use LGPL'd stuff?

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Aloone_Jonez:
I thought LGPL'd code can be use in closed source propietry software, it's just GPL code that can't.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---I thought LGPL'd code can be use in closed source propietry software, it's just GPL code that can't.
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No, the LGPL allows non-free software to link with the LGPL libraries.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html

--- Quote ---The GNU Project has two principal licenses to use for libraries.  One is the GNU Library GPL; the other is the ordinary GNU GPL.  The choice of license makes a big difference: using the Library GPL permits use of the library in proprietary programs; using the ordinary GPL for a library makes it available only for free programs.
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piratePenguin:
If I made a library, say, libcrap, and released it under the GPL, then only free programs could link with and use my library. But if I released it under the LGPL (not in a million years), then free and non-free programs could link with and use my library. Either way, developers of non-free software can't take any of my code and use it in their non-free programs. But developers of free software can.

Aloone_Jonez:
That's what I meant, if the LGPL'd library is statically linked then some of it's code becomes part of the binary, thus if the program is closed source then it's effectively using  LGPL'd code.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---That's what I meant, if the LGPL'd library is statically linked then some of it's code becomes part of the binary, thus if the program is closed source then it's effectively using LGPL'd code.
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Yea they can do that.
I thought you meant the source code. My bad.

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