The Free Software Foundation
has released the second draft of version 3 of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). In addition to general editing, the new draft ties the LGPL more closely to the GNU General Public License (GPL), introduces the concept of a “linked version,” and adds a new option for distributing combined works.
FSF Releases New Draft of LGPL
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If I understand this correctly, statically linking an LGPL-licensed library does not force an open-source license on the rest of the application. Am I right?
Yup. Or at least that was the idea. I’m assuming the new license is essentially the same
Hopefully, they will clarify the use of the LGPL license and Java libraries, which more than a few people find a bit diffuse.