davidmoreno / onion

C library to create simple HTTP servers and Web Applications.
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Question about onion licence (LGPLv3) #261

Closed alexe100 closed 4 years ago

alexe100 commented 4 years ago

Hi We are thinking to adopt onion for our commercial embedded system which runs on linux based operating system. Just to be sure, does LGPLv3 licence of onion is also valid when we use the option dependecies of onion: gnutls and gcrypt (SSL support) pthreads (threading support) libxml2 (WebDAV support) libpam (HTTP Basic Auth support using PAM) C++ compiler Systemd (support for listening on systemd sockets) sqlite3 (sqlite3 session backend) hiredis (Redis session backend)

We mean, can we develop webserver/websoket server/rest api using onion and keep source code closed?

Thanks Alex

davidmoreno commented 4 years ago

You should check individual licenses of each dependency. For the onion part is ok. For others I think too, but please don't just take my word for it, and check the individual licenses.

Remember that if you do modifications to libonion itself the modifications must be shared with your clients (not even with me). You can use libonion in a non free product as library, but libonion is free software always.

Regards, David.

On Fri, 27 Dec 2019 at 11:22, Alex notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi We are thinking to adopt onion for our commercial embedded system which runs on linux based operating system. Just to be sure, does LGPLv3 licence of onion is also valid when we use the option dependecies of onion: gnutls and gcrypt (SSL support) pthreads (threading support) libxml2 (WebDAV support) libpam (HTTP Basic Auth support using PAM) C++ compiler Systemd (support for listening on systemd sockets) sqlite3 (sqlite3 session backend) hiredis (Redis session backend)

We mean, can we develop webserver/websoket server/rest api using ionin and keep source code closed?

Thanks Alex

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