On 6 Apr 2002, Bruno David Sim�es Rodrigues wrote:
> Don't the licence works the other way ?
> If the lib is gpl, a comercial program can't use it ?
>
> If Yahoo have a licence that explicitly says that open-source can and
> should use it (they can even say that the program that uses the lib
> must be free $$ so there's no other commercial yim client)
That's the difference between open source and free software. It may be
okay for Open source software to use a commercial library, but it isn't
okay for a Free software project to use a commercial library, although
the fsf is probably in a better position to rule on this.
The fact is that any project that uses a commercial library cannot be
entirely free, and is also dependent on the commercial provider to keep
providing updated copies under the same terms.
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HARDFAIL("Not enough magic.");
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