Re: License LPGL and commercialization

Yeah I'd tell the lawyers to read the LGPL more carefully. Or maybe get new lawyers who are familiar with the topic.

Here's a useful link in plain language, in case your lawyers are having trouble with legalese :) https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html

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> On Feb 24, 2021, at 8:57 AM, Daniele Varrazzo <daniele(dot)varrazzo(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 at 16:55, Hunt, Brian C.
> <Brian(dot)C(dot)Hunt(at)osfhealthcare(dot)org> wrote:
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>> I have recently been told by outside council (lawyers) that our organization is unable to use LGPL licensed packages in software we plan to sell.
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> Your lawyer is wrong.
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>> Seems to suggest the purpose of the LGPL license is not to prevent the intended use we have in mind (selling the web app to be hosted locally at other organizations). Instead it is to prevent other from building off the drivers and then selling those drivers.
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> Correct. You are not forbidden to use psycopg2 in a closed source program.
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> -- Daniele
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