Short for Lesser General Public
License, the license that accompanies some
open
sourcesoftware that details how the software and its accompany source code can
be freely copied, distributed and modified. A Lesser General Public License is
used to license free software so that it can be incorporated into both free
software and proprietary software, and is often referred to as the weaker sibling
of GPL. The LGPL and GPL licenses differ with one major exception; with LGPL the
the requirement that you open up the source code to your own extensions to the
software is removed. The most widespread use of LGPL is in reference to the
GNU LGPL.
LGPL is also called GNU libraries and formally called the Library
GPL.
Open Source Initiative OSI - The LGPL: Licensing This is the first released version of the Lesser GPL. It also counts as the successor of the GNU Library Public License, version 2, hence the version number 2.1.
The GNU GPL The full text of Version 2 of the GNU GPL.
