Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Jul 1998 15:23:41 -0700 | From | William Henning <> | Subject | Re: FreeGPL license proposal (was Re: Linus Speaks About KDE-Bashing) |
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At 04:30 PM 7/18/98 -0600, Richard Stallman wrote: > We are releasing development libraries, not entire programs... > The Mozilla license fit the bill for us perfectly. > >Using an LGPL-covered library can't really be impossibly painful for >business, since all the companies that link proprietary programs for >GNU/Linux have done it. They all use GNU libc, which is covered by >the LGPL.
My understanding is that the terms of the LGPL are satisfied as long as LGPL libraries are dynamically linked to proprietary code - am I correct? This seems to be implied by the availability of commercial software.
Regards,
Bill Henning
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