On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Douglas Ridgway wrote: > * LGPL may well be legal gibberish. Be sure to consult non-FSF lawyers > as well as talking to the FSF. This is problematic because a gibberish > license will discourage use. I know that I would be cautious linking > source with a value of 100M against something LGPL, if I was worried about > the risk that a judge might decide that by so doing I'd created a derived > work, and thus had gnuified my entire source.
This is so much FUD that even Microsoft would blush. If this would even be a _possibility_, no comercial company would release products on Linux, since they most likely link against glibc. I assure you the Oracle DB is worth more than 100M... This is kind of argument that really show, in my mind, that the arguments pro-BSD are quite weak, really. -- Dimi.
