Ethics and Law of modified LGPL code deployment in a commercial software

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Published on 2009-09-24T08:11:03Z Indexed on 2010/04/07 22:13 UTC
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First bit of the question:

What are the legal requirements of LGPL code during the deployment of a commercial product?

Software package should include LGPL licence file
Anything else? Shall we add a line to our "software agreement text" where you need to click next in the installer ?

Second bit, Is there any known / accepted ways of distributing the changed library.

Since it's LGPL anything derived from it should be licenced under LGPL. But what about after that?

Shall we just send a copy to the original author?
Shall we put it in our website so people can download?
Or ship the source code with the product?
Or just put a note that saying "e-mail us for the source code of this library".

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