"Kevin P. Lawton" wrote:
> For a FAQ, here was an entry that Mikael Jansson posted
> before, and I modified a little:
For the record, I originally wrote this. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> send
on 22 December 1999.
> Q: Is there a {Windows, BeOS, *BSD, PowerPC, SPARC} version of FreeMWare? Is
> anyone working on one ?
>
> A: Currently we are focusing our efforts on producing an initial release for
> x86 Linux as quickly as possible. We are keeping portability issues in mind
> and there will be opportunities for people to work on other targets later.
>
> How about another one:
> Q: What license is FreeMWare being developed under?
>
> A: LGPL, the GNU Lesser General Public License. Thus
> FreeMWare is an open source project.
I apologize if this has been covered before, but why is LGPL being used
instead of GPL? It would seem to me that LGPL offers little or no benefit for
a package like FreeMWare, since there is no reason to want to link it with
proprietary code. By the same token, it could be a disadvantage, since GPL
code can't be linked with LGPL code.
