Re: PostgreSQL, LGPL and GPL. - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Karen Hill
Subject Re: PostgreSQL, LGPL and GPL.
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Msg-id 1161373416.359696.166570@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com
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In response to PostgreSQL, LGPL and GPL.  ("Karen Hill" <karen_hill22@yahoo.com>)
Responses Re: PostgreSQL, LGPL and GPL.  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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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?:

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

}

}


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