On 8/22/05, Lourens Veen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 22 August 2005 18:56, Jack Carroll wrote:
> >  Possibly community contributions may need to be dual-licensed from
> > the beginning, so that they're under LGPL, but Traversal is also allowed to
> > merge them with proprietary Verilog files that go into the ASIC build.  Or
> > maybe LGPL allows both uses of outside contributions as long as the source
> > files are statically linked but not actually merged; I haven't really
> > studied LGPL the way I have GPL.
> 
> Is there any reason why we would want to permit linking the software model
> with proprietary software? I don't see why it shouldn't just be the GPL
> rather than the LGPL...

As a member of the Free Software community, I want the linking clause
in there.  The LGPL has its place, but the GPL is powerful in its
ability to keep us from getting ripped off.

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