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Universal Service
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Universal Service is a collection of garbage collectors written in C.
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License
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Universal Service is licensed under the LGPL-3.0-or-later.
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Contrary to popular belief, **static linking LGPL code does not force
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your code to be LGPL.** The LGPL requires you to allow the user to swap
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out the LGPL code for anything that fits the interface, and for you to
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redistribute modifications to the LGPL code. From the
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`GNU Project FAQ <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LGPLStaticVsDynamic>`_:
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> Does the LGPL have different requirements for statically vs dynamically
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> linked modules with a covered work?
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>
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> For the purpose of complying with the LGPL (any extant version: v2, v2.1 or v3):
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>
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> If you statically link against an LGPLed library, you must also
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> provide your application in an object (not necessarily source) format,
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> so that a user has the opportunity to modify the library and relink
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> the application.
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You can statically link any LGPL 3.0 code to code of permissive licenses
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(like MIT), and even to source-available license (like the SSPL or the
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Commons Clause) as long as the end user can recompile the program to use
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their own version of the library.
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