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Re: GPL or LGPL
Mark Galassi writes:
> You can certainly use GSL internally; you just can't make a non-GPLed
> product out of it.
>
Yeah, that's a very common misunderstanding.
> You should certainly consider coming out with a GPLed product that
> uses it: many companies make good revenue with GPLed products.
>
See http://www.cygnus.com , http://www.prosa.it , http://www.senga.org,
http://www.idonex.se , http://www.id-pro.de , http://www.cendio.se,
http://www.cyclic.com
I forgot the addy of R. Stallman's favourite Example, the Ada Core Team
of Robby Dewar.
> We are not sympathetic to the argument "I really want to use your
> library to make a proprietary product..."
>
Exactly! All software should finally ne free.
The Lesser GPL (or similar licenses like the one of guile) are
only to be thought as a temporary solution.
> Your examples of institutions that have put out products under a
> university-style license (like the X11 license or the new BSD license)
> is not all that enlightening: the real lesson to me is that these
> products (like Tk and X) have been frequently put into non-free
> products.
Exactly. And particularly dangerous are licenses like those of
Mozilla, Qt or the non-free but open source Apple stuff, the latter
because it aims to extend the power of copyright beyond its common
boundaries.
Klaus Schilling