Re: PostgreSQL, LGPL and GPL.

Karen Hill wrote:
> John Hasler wrote:
>
>>> Npgsql is LGPL. It means you must release the source of Npgsql when
>>> distributing it, and if you modify Npgsql, but not have to release the
>>> source under the (L)GPL of the software that calls Npgsql functions?
>> Pretty much, but you must provide your software in a form that can be
>> relinked.
>>
>
> What does that mean? In .NET, you add a reference to the Npgsql dll,
> and then add "Using Npgsql;" to the top of the class you want to use
> Npgsql in. So if you wrote something like this it would have to go
> under the LGPL?:

What he means is if you modified npgsql.dll itself you would have to
provide those modifications back. Not your code, just the code that
modifies npgsql.

J

>
> Using Npgsql;
> namespace foo{
> class foobar
> {
> foobar()
> {
> String connectionString = "";
> NpgsqlConnection conn = new NpgsqlConnection(connectionString);
> }
>
> }
>
> }
>
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