[littlestymaar]

With LGPL, you can't statically link the library though. Which requires your user to install it manualy, unless you package your software with some kind of installer (which is not so common on windows for cli executables).

[jcelerier]

> With LGPL, you can't statically link the library though.

no, that's tiresomely false. You can link proprietary code statically with LGPL code. LGPL does not give a shit about static or dynamic libraries because LGPL is not a language-specific license.

Right from the source: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LGPLStaticVsDynami...

[littlestymaar]

Thanks for the link. The nuance I was missing is that you can distribute statically-linked LGPL library as long as you provide a way for your user to override the chosen library with his own version of the library.

[detaro]

It's very common to ship windows CLI tools as a .zip file with an exe and a bunch of .dlls, that's not exactly burdensome to install compared to only an executable.