goamz license

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Hey Evan,

> at using goamz. I notice that it's released under the LGPL license.
> I'm no lawyer, but most sources I've read indicate that statically
> linking to an LGPL library counts as derivative work and it would mean
> that the application source needs to be released. And as you know, all
> Go applications compiled by 6g are statically linked.

I'm not a lawyer either, so will have to check internally.  My understanding
is that the goal was to enable that kind of usage of the library without
binding the application that merely uses the library into having the
same license.

> Would it be possible to change the license to a BSD-style one or at
> least provide a static linking exception? Do I have any other option
> besides not using goamz?

I'm pretty sure we can sort something out, otherwise there'd be no point
in releasing it as LGPL rather than GPL. Let me get in touch with the
people within Canonical responsible for that area to see what's the
best way to make that happen.

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