> On 17 Feb 2016, at 18:34, David Matthews <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> ...
> Of more concern is that LZO is licensed under GPL rather than LGPL. Poly/ML 
> is licensed under LGPL and that means that it cannot include or even link to 
> LZO without coming under GPL.  That doesn't preclude experimenting with it 
> but for distribution I'd prefer a library that didn't have these problems.

It would cause me significant problems if the Poly/ML licence changed to GPL.
I can't understand why the LZO developers chose GPL rather than LGPL unless
they hope that decision would force people to buy their commercial offering 
(which
I believe is a doomed business plan).

Regards,

Rob.
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