Do my XBasic programs have to released under LPGL?
Of course not. You can write anything you want with XBasic and release it under any terms or license as you want, be it open source, freeware, shareware, commercial ware, public domain, LPGL, etc. The XBasic runtime library is covered by the LGPL, not the GPL. You can’t charge for XBasic or for the library (other than a reasonable distribution cost), but your program (commercial, shareware, or otherwise) can use the runtime library without any change in the status of your program. What you may not do is incorporate any part of the PDE or compiler into your program and then sell that – even as shareware. The PDE and compiler are the portions covered by the GPL, the runtime libraries are not. • You can distribute the runtime xb.dll with your applications. • You can compile your code AND XBasic LGPL code into an executable (EXE or DLL) without giving out any of your .x or .s or .o files. • You need not mention XBasic or XBasic web-sites to release an executable (EXE or DLL) created by the
