Image by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images Whats in a License? There are a lot of software licenses out there, and there are a lot of opinions about licenses out there. Sometimes I noti…

It seems people have a hard time understanding the implications of licenses, so I have written a something to help with that.

  • paequ2@lemmy.today
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    3 months ago

    LGPL

    The license seems to be targeted towards languages like C/C++. On the other hand, languages like Go do a lot of static linking, so it may be impossible to comply with this license in Go.

    MPL may be a good alternative here.

      • paequ2@lemmy.today
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        3 months ago

        If you statically link against an LGPLed library, you must also provide your application in an object (not necessarily source) format, so that a user has the opportunity to modify the library and relink the application.

        Yeah, I think this is the hard part with Go. I’ve never seen anyone do anything with objects in Go. Everything is compiled into 1 binary, often statically linked. I’m not sure it’s possible to build a Go binary by using object files.