> Companies don't like GPL as they have to expose their IP and are > afraid to loose money. If the library is LGPL they can still use the
I would disagree there. Most companies I deal with like the GPL because it means that anything they do provide cannot be ripped off by the competition - which is a real world problem with BSD and LGPL like licenses. So the position you characterise is actually not general - and I think is actually very 1990s > about how much time would be required to throw out the GPL-infected > code and replace it with LGPL, together with the time it would take to > get permissions from the people who are not strict GPL-fanatics to It strikes me that using words like "infected" and "fanatics" is not the way to persuade people that you are anything but a troll and to have a serious debate. A lot of contributors to projects actually don't think random companies should be able to take and not give back. Alan _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
