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

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Josh Glover writes:
 > 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?

No, readline uses the GPL, against the expectation of its primary
author, precisely because it's such a useful library that it makes a
great club.  It was used on Ghostscript, for one, and on Python.