Because linking to a GPLed library "forces" your software to be GPLed, not with LGPL.
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 14:08, Adam Treat wrote: > --- Freddy BL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > CsGL is licensed under the MIT/BSD-license. Thats license is ok, I think. > > The Mesa3D-library is licensed under an similar BSD-license. > > At your project-page under http://sourceforge.net/projects/monoglo there > > stand "License: GNU General Public License (GPL)". Thats what I don't like. > > MonoGLo is a library. So BSD/MIT is ok and LGPL is ok, but not GPL! > > (Btw: Adam have choosen for Qt# the same license) :-( > > Could you please explain *why* you think the GPL is not acceptable for libraries? >The GPL is one > of the most widely used Free Software licenses. The LGPL license is known as the >*lesser* license > and was created for strategic reasons not because of any principle that 'libraries >should be free > for proprietary developers'. Do you wish to create proprietary software with >MonoGlo? > > Adam > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
