[Ecls-list] ECL as an embedded language on an Android game

[Anton Vodonosov]

06.07.2013, 10:00, "Matthew Mondor" <mm_lists at pulsar-zone.net>:
> On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 09:38:20 +0400
> Anton Vodonosov <avodonosov at yandex.ru> wrote:
>
>>>  1 - Licensing/the ecl-android build process. ECL is LGPL, which means I can't statically link against it without open sourcing my project (which I can't), but ecl-android generates a static library for it. Since there are so many files and generators, I don't even know where to start to change it to a shared library.
>>  You are mistaken here - you can link with LGPL libraries without open sourcing your code.
>>  This is exactly the difference between GPL and LGPL.
>
> Unless I'm mistaken (disclaimer: I'm no lawyer), dynamic linking is
> fine, as it allows to fulfill the requirement that the user be able to
> upgrade the LGPL dependencies, while static linking might be
> problematic...
> --
> Matt

Ah, yes, it is me who is mistaken. Indeed, static linking requires your code to be open sourced.