FreeTDS Development Group

[Ken Collins <ken AT metaskills.net>]

> The relevant provision of the LGPL is that your program must be able
> to be relinked against a modified version of FreeTDS.  This is an
> issue for commercial software, but if you are under an MIT license and
> providing source code, this should not be a problem (user can relink
> by recompiling).

Absolutely true.

> It will however mean that, whereas under MIT somebody would be able to
> take the code closed source, the downstream recipient will be likewise
> obligated to either 1) make source available 2) make object files
> available for relinking statically or 3) switch to dynamic linking if
> they don't distribute code.
> 
> tldr; yes you can statically link but there are some caveats.
> Hope this helps, Brian

Thank you Brian!


 - Ken