Hi John,
John Cowan writes:
> [...] There are two traditional arguments
> in favor of putting libraries under the GPL:
[...]
> 2) "Benefit GPLed programs": if a library is GPLed, it supposedly gives
> the advantages of using that library only to GPLed applications.
You're mistaken. A GPLed
On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 8:29 AM Mark H Weaver wrote:
> You're mistaken. A GPLed library can be used by any program covered by
> a *GPL-compatible* license.
>
At the cost of making the resulting work as a whole under the GPL.
> Those are major historical examples, but the same thing happens qu