Yes. But not for libraries.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.
And _if_ it is used for libraries, it have special extensions for linking (like GNU-Classpath: http://www.classpath.org)
But it seems, that both (Qt# and MonoGLo) don't have this extensions.
The LGPL license is known as the *lesser* license and was created for strategic reasons
And why existing this "strategic reasons" not for Qt# or MonoGLo?
No. And I am not a programmer.not because of any principle that 'libraries should be free for proprietary developers'. Do you wish to create proprietary software with MonoGlo?
But
1. there existing more OpenSource-licenses then GPL. And the most are incompatible to the GPL. So it is not possible to create programs under the Mozilla Public License or Artistic License, if they are based on Qt# or MonoGLo.
2. the same "strategic reasons", which exists for the LGPL-programs.
Would the complete GNU/Linux under the GPL (with X-Windows, GNOME, etc), there would no company creating their proprietary software for this system. So you have a system, which only GPL-programs have. And that is very less. And that ends, that the number of GNU/Linux-Users are less, too. But because the libraries of GNU/Linux are not under the GPL, there existing so much programs for it.
The same applies to libraries of the mono/pnet/.net-platform.
But if you prefer the GPL for your libraries, I accept it. But it restricts unnecessarily the number of programs, which are based on it.
And it restricts unnecessarily the currency of Qt#
Btw: With your GPL-library, you go the GPL-way more strict, then the FSF. All libraries, what you can find under www.gnu.org, are LGPL or GPL with special extensions.
Show me _one_ stand-allone-library on www.gnu.org, which completly under the GPL licensed is.
And TrollTech have put Qt under the GPL _and_ QPL. And if you want to use it in proprietary programs, you can buy a special license.
But can firms buy a special license of Qt# from you?
And though Qt is not under the LGPL, the KDE-team itself put their libraries under the LGPL. What do you think why they do this?
But if you prefer the GPL for libraries, I accept it. But I don't like the GPL for it.
Greatings
BL-Freddy
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