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What are the meanings of the meaning of “distribution” under the LGPL?

This question is a continuation of one of my other questions. Can I legally include the GPL and LGPL, open source software in my own closed source project?

Many of the LGPL license terms are based on the concept of distribution. My company does business as a consultant. We have contracted to create the software that we provide to our customers. Does this mean distribution under the LGPL?

We also provided software for our customers to download through a password-protected file server. Does this mean distribution?

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Yes Yes. One of the reasons the GPL came about in the first place was to prevent a situation where someone has a binary file but no source for this.

IANAL, so I can’t talk about whether the relationship between the consultant and the client will be a loophole that you could use to avoid transferring the source code, but this certainly contradicts the intention of the license to do what you offer.

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Yes, both of these cases make up the distribution. If it gets out of the hands of the developer, it spreads. It is, of course, assumed that your company is the owner of the license, and not your client.

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