Commercial Use

Yes, it is. Which part of the LGPL left you in doubt about this?

My understanding is:

GPL: if you use a GPL program in your application, your entire application also becomes GPL.

LGPL: if you use a LGPL program in your application, when distributing your aplication you must include the source and the LGPL copy write for the LGPL scripts you are using (FCKEDITROR), but you can copyright, and encode the rest of the code (your programing work).

Chris

oh, and if you are able to successfully add the FCKEDITOR or any LGPL scripts into your commercial application you sould donate money to the project, since you are finacailly benifiting from the project so sould the creators.

Chris

I understand why people get really confused about the whole LGPL license. The problem lies in the fact that very few people actually redistribute their web apps on say, a CD, so the whole thing about 'it's free if you give away the source code when redistributing' makes very little sense.

Instead, most users will let people use their web apps via a subscription scheme. My understanding is that this would be LGPL compliant, but I'm not a lawyer.

MySql has the same problem, with a lots of companies getting fed up by a confusing licensing scheme that bares little ressemblance to the on-the-ground realities of web applications.

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