• www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html. The LGPL was developed as a compromise between the strong copyleft of the GNU General Public License (GPL)...
  • This license, the GNU Lesser General Public License, applies to certain designated libraries, and is quite different from the ordinary General Public License.
  • The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions of the GNU Lesser General Public License from time to time.
  • (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by the GNU Lesser General Public License instead.) You can apply it to your programs, too.
  • [This is the first released version of the Lesser GPL.It also counts as the successor of the GNU Library Public License, version 2, hence the version number 2.1.]
  • This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software...
  • Such a work, in isolation, is not a derivative work of the Library, and therefore falls outside the scope of this License.
  • [This is the first released version of the Lesser GPL. It also counts as the successor of the GNU Library Public License, version 2, hence the version number 2.1.]
  • ..."GNU Library General Public License" gave some people the impression that the FSF wanted all libraries to use the LGPL and all programs to use the GPL.
  • (If a newer version than version 2 of the ordinary GNU General Public License has appeared, then you can specify that version instead if you wish.)