From: Warren Young Date: November 9 2005 7:52pm Subject: Re: License Question List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/plusplus/5127 Message-Id: <43725387.4010404@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hardy, Allan wrote: > > Proprietary app -> > dynamically linked to LGPL mysql++ -> > dynamically linked to GPL licensed mysql > > Since the LGPL woul isolate the Proprietary App from the GPL copyleft Ah, no. The most restrictive license always obtains. If your statement were the case, then on Linux, the LGPL nature of glibc would free a lot of apps from needing to be GPL.