"Jeffrey B. Siegal" wrote:
> > 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.
Other projects are interested in using/integrating with FreeMWare
and are non-GPL Open Source. FreeMWare has potential to be
used as a debug/test environment for OS development and
other stuff. For example, if you had some BSD style
code that needed to link with FreeMWare, GPL would not
work.
> By the same token, it could be a disadvantage, since GPL
> code can't be linked with LGPL code.
What makes you think this? LGPL code can be linked with
_any_ code, provided you abide by the LGPL license, essentially
that you feedback code changes, and offer source. This
is the point of LGPL.
-Kevin
