At least one company (mine at the time) had a problem with using LGPL software because of the clause where you explicitly allow reverse engineering of your product in order to use a different version of the LGPL library. That's enough to give any corporate lawyer the screaming heebie jeebies, not to mention the possibility of having to support your product with users running random versions of some of the libraries you depend on. A ridiculous prospect? Maybe, but the LGPL very explicitly allows it and forces acceptance of those terms, so clearly someone is anticipating doing it.
On 13 November 2013 11:25, John Gabriele <jmg3...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 11:30:23 AM UTC-5, Sean Corfield wrote: >> >> It's also worth >> pointing out that a lot of US companies won't use GPL-licensed >> software (and won't pay for a closed source version), and many aren't >> comfortable with LGPL either. >> > > I don't see why a company would have any problem at all with *using* > LGPL'd software, even in a product. However, I can see the possible > complaints if they wanted to *modify* it and then distribute their modified > version (since that would then require distributing the modified source > along with it). > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
