On Monday, 2013-08-12, Ryan Bramantya wrote:

> I think there is no need to use tri-license. Based on LGPL licensing
> policy, it said that LGPL can be converted to GPL (but not vice versa).

It doesn't have to be converted, it is compatible.

> Therefore, by chosing LGPL as license, if someone want to create GPL
> software, the just converting it to GPL and if some one want to create BSD
> or proprietary software and avoid LGPL, the just dynamically linking their
> software to LGPL component which wouldn't affect their BSD or proprietary
> license. This is what I see as the advantage of LGPL from any other
> license.

Which is why libraries are usually LGPL licensed.
Can you give an example where one would want to use application code to create 
a new library and link against it when the original source of the code is not 
using said library?

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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