Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RMS at it again *sigh* | Date | Wed, 03 Feb 1999 18:07:39 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <19990203160832.26213@llaic.u-clermont1.fr>, Roger Espel Llima write s: +----- | > I just read an article by RMS in which he is thinking of changing | > libraries over from the LGPL to the GPL. This will have the unwanted | > side-effect of driving commercial interests away from further ports of | > proprietary software (potentially deny these ports' future conversion to | > open source) | | Re-read the article, he explicitly says that for libraries like glibc | the LGPL makes sense. He's arguing for GPL for "special utility" | libraries like readline or GMP (which are both under GPL already, AFAIK). +--->8
And the GNOME folks have already decided to stay with LGPL, from what I've seen.
In any case, *it's not a kernel issue*. It may well be a distribution issue, but that's not a topic for linux-kernel.
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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