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conditions and redistributed.
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available to the public. With this license, the software can be changed under certain
conditions and redistributed.
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Note that the LGPL is compatible with the GPL: you can decide to upgrade to GPL and incorporate it in a wholly GPL licensed project if you wish. You can't however go the other way and re-license GPL licensed code as LGPL.
Using the Licensed Code The GPL v3 license permits users of the code to: Use the code for commercial purposes: Like GPL v2, GPL v3 imposes no conditions on the internal use of the software.
Applying LGPL to a library ensures that the library itself and any modified versions of it will remain open source. But it can be used by closed source software.
The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a member of the GNU family of open source licenses, along with the GNU GPL v2, the GNU GPL v3, and the GNU AGPL License.
GPL stands for General Public License. LGPL is like an amended version of GPL. It stands for Lesser General Public License. It limits your requirement to provide some of your code, but you still are required to divulge the modifications that you implement.
Use of licensed softwareSoftware under the GPL may be run for all purposes, including commercial purposes and even as a tool for creating proprietary software, such as when using GPL-licensed compilers.
You can use and distribute LGPL libraries on your website and use them in combination with commercial code. The only big restriction is that you must keep the library open source, including any modifications you make to it, and allow your users to obtain the source, licence and copyright information for the library.
In brief: GPL is mostly for programs while LGPL is limited to software libraries. Whenever changes are made under GPL license, source codes are required and changes must also be licensed under GPL, while LGPL may allow non-GPL programs to link to libraries but must still provide source codes.
Short answer is yes, you can sell your application under any license you like.
Users of the software are better protected under GPL than LGPL. Under the LGPL, software users are less protected than GPL. General Public License is the complete form of GPL. Lesser General Public License is the complete form of LGPL.