On Thursday 01 January 2009 15:28, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > 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.
Only some people. Like trolltech and Nokia who owned all the code before releasing it GPL. I am not aware of the status of external contributions though. Do trolltech require assignment of copyrights? -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
