<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><base href="x-msg://1739/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I have never said that "<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">some of the restrictions placed by LGPL are not valid". The LGPL license remains fully valid.</span><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">What I have said, however, is that I do not personally have an objection to</span></font> "LIVE555 Streaming Media" code being linked statically, especially within iOS applications - which apparently is the only way that iOS applications can make use of the code.</div><div><br></div><div>However, I obviously can't make any guarantees about how others might view this - e.g., if this software (or company) were to change ownership sometime down the road.<div><div><br></div><div><div><div>In any case, I also consider it very important that any developer of a product that uses this software be willing to - upon request - upgrade it to use the latest version of the software.</div><div><br></div><div>In general, questions about software copyright and licensing are best handled by personal email - after consulting your company's legal department - rather than on this mailing list (which is intended mainly for programming questions, and whose members are usually programmers rather than lawyers).</div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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