Licence Question

[Steven Hawkes]

Hi,

JFreeChart is the component I have been looking for.
and I would like to use this at work on a commercial
product I am working on.

My understanding of the GNU licience is that my
source code that uses a component under the GNU licence
would also have to be released under the GNU licience.
Which for my commercial application is not possible.

Is this also the case with the "Lesser GNU Liciene"?

Thanks in advance

Steve

[Dave Gilbert]

The GNU LGPL allows you to combine JFreeChart with a proprietary application. You do not need to distribute the source code for your application, but you do need to make the source code for JFreeChart (including any modifications you make to it) available to users of your application.

It also needs to be possible for your users to modify their copy of JFreeChart (without breaking the public API) and relink it with your proprietary application and continue to run the software. This is usually not difficult with Java, especially if you are just redistributiing the jfreechart.jar file.

Regards,

DG.