Can I use a product that has an LGPL 2.1 license for commercial purposes?

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sivabur2015-10-19 22:29:15

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sivabur, 2015-10-19 22:29:15

Can I use a product that has an LGPL 2.1 license for commercial purposes?
Change it? And it will be necessary (changed) to lay out in open access?

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Dimonchik, 2015-10-19
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1) you can
2) you can change
3) if you decide to distribute the changed, then yes - all the code is in the public domain

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Maxim Moseychuk, 2015-10-20
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dimonchik2013 it should be clarified that the LGPL allows dynamic linking without opening the source (this is what it was made for). Those. if there is a library under the LGPL (Qt, for example), then we can use dynamic libraries without any restrictions. If we decide to change the code of the library, then we will be obliged (in case of distribution) to open the source codes of only the library, we are not obliged to open our application.