On August 6, 2012, CDE was freed under the LGPL free software license. Its source code is available at SourceForge.

The GNU Library General Public License ( as the LGPL was originally named ) was published in 1991, and adopted the version number 2 for parity with GPL version 2.

Version 3 of the LGPL was published in 2007 as a list of additional permissions applied to GPL version 3.

In the early 1990s it was ported to Windows and Linux, and since 1999 it has been available as open source software with its runtime library under the LGPL license.

Near the end of 2007, after several releases in the 0. 6. x series that included all known security fixes, version 1. 0 was released under the LGPL v2. 1, with libmpg123 branded as a full-featured replacement for mpglib.

It was later released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License ( LGPL ).

In January 2009 Qt itself was made available under the GNU LGPL, along with the previous license options.

Time Warner, exercising its rights under the Netscape Public License, and at the request of the Mozilla Foundation, has relicensed all code in Mozilla that was under the Netscape Public License ( including code by other contributors ) to an MPL / GPL / LGPL triple license, thus removing the GPL-incompatibility.

In 2003, the CAS source code of the 49G ROM was released under the LGPL.

After many years of Inventor being solely available under proprietary licensing from TGS ( today, VSG-Visualization Sciences Group ), it was released under the LGPL open source license in August 2000, which is available from SGI.

While version 2. 1 of the LGPL was a standalone licence, the current LGPL version 3 is based on a reference to the GPL.

The hardware design was released under the GNU Lesser General Public License ( LGPL ), while the models and firmware were released under the GNU General Public License ( GPL ).

Cedega ( formerly known as WineX ) was TransGaming Technologies ' proprietary fork of Wine ( from the last version of Wine under the X11 license before switching to GNU LGPL ), designed specifically for running games created for Microsoft Windows under Linux.

TransGaming halted using code contributed to Wine when the license was changed, though this has resumed recently with TransGaming integrating certain LGPL portions of Wine into Cedega and placing those portions of the source code on their public servers.

It was free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License ( LGPL ).

Later versions of OpenOffice. org were dual-licensed under the SISSL and LGPL until the retirement of the SISSL, at which time OpenOffice. org was relicensed only under the LGPL.

The unixODBC project was first started in the early months of 1999 ( by Peter Harvey ) and was created as at that time the developers of iODBC ( another open source ODBC implementation ) were not then willing to LGPL the code, expand the API to include the current ODBC 3 API specification, and did not consider the addition of GUI based configuration tools worthwhile.

The program was licensed as Careware software, now as LGPL with the source available on the website.

It was written by Konstantin Shishkov, and released under version 2. 1 of the LGPL.

The first development versions of Speex were released under LGPL license, but as of version 1. 0 beta 1, Speex is released under Xiph's version of the ( revised ) BSD license.

* GNU LGPL 2. 1 version with Qt special exception

It is implemented in standard Python, 2. x and 3. x and is released as open source software under the GNU Lesser General Public License ( LGPL ).

OSF and its projects eventually became part of The Open Group, which released DCE 1. 2. 2 under a free software license ( the LGPL ) on 12 January 2005.

" OpenOffice. org 2. 0 code, for example, is now licensed exclusively under the LGPL.

The code is provided under the GNU GPL / LGPL license and can be built and used on many different operating systems, including most versions of Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, IBM OS / 2 and Microsoft's Interix.

Previous versions of iText ( Java up to 2. 1. 7 and C # up to 4. 1. 6 ) were distributed under the Mozilla Public License or the LGPL.

* DCE / RPC 1. 2. 2 source from The Open Group, released under the LGPL

The LGPL places copyleft restrictions on the program governed under it but does not apply these restrictions to other software that merely link with the program.

The LGPL is primarily used for software libraries, although it is also used by some stand-alone applications.

The main difference between the GPL and the LGPL is that the latter allows the work to be linked with ( in the case of a library, ' used by ') a non -( L ) GPLed program, regardless of whether it is free software or proprietary software.

: The LGPL contains no special provisions for inheritance, because none are needed.

Inheritance creates derivative works in the same way as traditional linking, and the LGPL permits this type of derivative work in the same way as it permits ordinary function calls.

The original GPL version of this toolkit only existed for the X11 platform, but with the release of Qt 4, LGPL versions are available for all platforms.

* November 1999: LAME switches from a GPL license to an LGPL license, which allows using it with closed-source applications.

In November 2005, there were reports that the Extended Copy Protection rootkit included on some Sony Compact Discs included portions of the LAME library without complying with the terms of the LGPL.

* Moses, a free software statistical machine translation engine released under the LGPL license for Windows and Linux.

* NiuTrans, a free software statistical machine translation engine released under the LGPL license for Windows and Linux, developed by the Natural Language Processing Group at Northeastern University, China.

It is one of the few GNU files not distributed under the GNU GPL or LGPL ; it is distributed under a permissive free software licence, similar to the MIT License.

The GNU Sather compiler, written in Sather itself, is dual licensed under the GNU GPL & LGPL.

This, and it being open-source and licensed under the LGPL, makes SDL a common choice for many multimedia applications.

The Xiph. Org Foundation's reference implementation is free and open sourced and it is dual-licensed under the BSD License and the GNU Lesser General Public License ( LGPL ).

The Wine project originally released Wine under the same MIT License as the X Window System, but owing to concern about proprietary versions of Wine not contributing their changes back to the core project, work as of March 2002 has used the LGPL for its licensing.

MicroEmulator provides an open source ( LGPL ) implementation of MIDP emulator.

On December 11, 2008, the Free Software Foundation filed suit against Cisco regarding Cisco's failure to comply with the GPL and LGPL license models and make the applicable source code publicly available.

The source of the interpreter is available as a C program under the LGPL license.