[fpc-pascal] TDBF licensing

[Adriaan van Os]

Jonas Maebe wrote:
> It doesn't matter whether the products or tools are commercial or not.
> The LGPL means that if you link statically against TDBF, you have to
> provide (on request) the object files of your program to customers that
> bought the original tool so they can relink it against newer/modified
> versions of the TDBF code.
> 
> There is no reason why you would ever have to release your own source
> code, except if you would start mixing your own source code into the
> TDBF units or so.

Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License> writes

	Essentially, if it is a "work that uses the library", then it must be possible for the software to 
be linked with a newer version of the LGPL-covered program. The most commonly used method for doing 
so is to use "a suitable shared library mechanism for linking". Alternatively, a statically linked 
library is allowed if either source code or linkable object files are provided.[2]

The most common solution is to compile LGPL code into a shared/dynamic library.

Regards,

Adriaan van Os