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@@ -171,11 +171,25 @@ For licensing information, please see the files:
Although this may seem complex, it is there to allow authors of Although this may seem complex, it is there to allow authors of
proprietary/commercial applications to use wxWindows in proprietary/commercial applications to use wxWindows in
addition to those writing GPL'ed applications. In summary, addition to those writing GPL'ed applications. In summary,
the licence is L-GPL plus a clause allowing unrestricted the licence is LGPL plus a clause allowing unrestricted
distribution of application binaries. To answer a FAQ, you distribution of application binaries. To answer a FAQ, you
don't have to distribute any source if you wish to write don't have to distribute any source if you wish to write
commercial applications using wxWindows. commercial applications using wxWindows.
However, if you distribute wxGTK or wxMotif (with Lesstif) version
of your application, don't forget that it is linked against
GTK+ (or Lesstif) which is covered by LGPL *without* exception
notice. Under Linux systems your app is probably linked
against LGPL glibc as well. Please read carefuly LGPL, section 6.
which describes conditions for distribution of closed source applications
linked against LGPL library. Basically you should link dynamicaly and
include source code of LGPL libraries with your product (unless it is
already present in user's system - like glibc usually is).
If compiled with --enable-odbc (Unix only), wxWindows library will
contain iODBC library which is covered by LGPL.
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