[Python-3000] C API for ints and strings

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Sep 9 10:39:10 CEST 2007


> The LGPL has no requirement that you convey source for unmodified
> libraries.  Linkage does not imply modification.

Why do you say that? LGPL 2.1, section 6a) (talking about
"work that uses the Library"):

a) Accompany the work with the complete corresponding machine-readable
source code for the Library including whatever changes were used in the
work (which must be distributed under Sections 1 and 2 above); and, if
the work is an executable linked with the Library, with the complete
machine-readable "work that uses the Library", as object code and/or
source code, so that the user can modify the Library and then relink to
produce a modified executable containing the modified Library. (It is
understood that the user who changes the contents of definitions files
in the Library will not necessarily be able to recompile the application
to use the modified definitions.)

So you must "accompany the work with complete source code for the Library".

Regards,
Martin


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