[Fdo-trac] [fdo-trac] #950: Static link in FDO

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#950: Static link in FDO
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   Reporter:  davidji   |      Owner:  gregboone
       Type:  task      |     Status:  new
   Priority:  critical  |  Milestone:  4.1.0
  Component:  General   |    Version:  4.1.0
   Severity:  2         |   Keywords:  License
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 Hi All,

 FDO now complies with LGPL v2.1, however, after I read carefully about the
 terms of LGPL, I happened to find LGPL does have some limitations on
 static link, you can take a reference from here -
 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10130143/gpl-lgpl-and-static-linking.
 But there are a few fundamental projects which are configured as static
 library, e.g. providersCommon, schemaMgr, smLogicalPhysical and so on. It
 is hard to create a 3rd party provider without those static libraries.

 I would suggest to add an exception in FDO license to allow 3rd party
 developers to use static link to open source projects, this can mitigate
 misunderstanding and potential legal risks, and I don’t think disallowing
 static link is the original idea of FDO. On the other hand, if we publicly
 announce the exception for static link, we probably can expand the usage
 of FDO in GIS world and attract more 3rd party developers.

 What do you guys think?



 Best regards,

 David

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