On Thursday 01 Jan 2009 9:14:49 am Praveen A wrote: > 2008/12/31 Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]>: > > anyway, one good thing is that I have now learned the difference between > > GPL and LGPL (I was under the impression that LGPL meant Lesser GPL - > > something that is not so strict as GPL). I was vaguely contemplating > > switching from wxPython to pyQT - now I realise how dangerous that is. > > Lesson: before using a library, make sure it is not under GPL. > > ... if you plan not to use GPL for your code. > > "Proprietary software developers have the advantage of money; free > software developers need to make advantages for each other. Using the > ordinary GPL for a library gives free software developers an advantage > over proprietary developers: a library that they can use, while > proprietary developers cannot use it." > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html
according to this, the whole idea of licensing libraries under GPL instead of LGPL is to *prevent* those libraries from being used for proprietary software and *force* the programmers to write free software. Is this what is happening here? These people are enjoying the best of both worlds - a great con. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
