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Re: [tlug] Bill Gates and the GPL , let the flames begin



2008/4/29 Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>:

>  If I happen to have spent a lot of time and effort writing, say, an
>  office suite, and I link the few-thousand-line readline library with my
>  millions of lines of code, I then have to give away all my code (which
>  the readline authors had nothing to do with writing) and its build
>  system to everyone, for free, in perpetuity. Ouch.

Doesn't readline use the LGPL for this very reason?

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Cheers,
Josh


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