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DO NOT USE! LICENSING / LEGAL ADVICE IS OFF TOPIC -- LGPL questions should be asked on opensource.stackexchange.com - The GNU Lesser General Public License is a weak copyleft free software license and is the second most popular open source license. It is generally designed for and used by software libraries.

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The [GNU Lesser General Public License][1] (formerly the GNU Library General Public License) or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License or GPL and permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License.

The LGPL is primarily used for software libraries, although it is also used by some stand-alone applications, most notably Mozilla and OpenOffice.org and sometimes media as well.

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Determine CPU Speed / Memory in C/C++ (Linux), LGPL or BSD are a requirement

I'm writing a distributed, embedded, multi master / slave application for my college coursework and as a part of that I need a way to determine the CPU Speed, CPU usage and available Memory of each system in realtime without a lot of memory…
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LGPLv3 app with an included ISCL license library?

I have an application (or library) with an Lesser GPL v3 license. I'd like to use (and publish it with) an ISCL licensed library. Would this be ok? Thanks!
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Qt, LGPL, Commercial closed-source application

We have a commercial windows application making use of Qt. I'll be very simplistic in my description as I must have a clear answer. At compile time we use Qt *.lib files We have a result of our compilation is an *.exe file, we wrap into an installer…
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If you read an LGPL projects source code and that inspires an entirely different implementation, is that work still a derived work?

I really want to use PGM for an application that I'm working on for one my companies. That application will never be distributed, it's for internal use only. There is an implementation called OpenPGM and a (I believe) derivative work javapgm that…
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LGPL License Question

Lets say that I am writing a program that supports plugins and I write one plugin that has a reference to a assembly(.net) that is licensed under LGPL, must I now make the whole project open source and under LGPL?
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Copyrights & Licenses: A bit lost

We're getting ready to deploy a commercial application. Our software makes use of several other libraries, which have licenses ranging from the Code Project Open License (CPOL), the LGPL, the Apache License, and the MIT License We want to comply…
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