Some companies are against having to release source under any conditions. I don't work with him, but I've heard internal rumblings in such companies because if you modify/patch the LGPL'd software and release it, you'll have to share the modifications.
Luckily, things have improved a lot since then at most companies :-) On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Ivan Pechorin <[email protected]>wrote: > > > 2012/4/23 Aaron Watters <[email protected]> > > I just started a new job where I had hoped to use zeromq >> but I discovered that zeromq is listed on the internal "forbidden" >> list because of issues with LGPL. There may be political ways >> around this as far as I know, but just to ask... >> > > By the way, what are the issues exactly? > > I used to think that LGPL (not GPL!) with static linking exception is safe > for use in closed-source applications, from legal point of view. > > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev > > -- *Noah Gibbs* Software Engineer | [email protected] | (510) 260-5409 (cell) www.ooyala.com | blog <http://www.ooyala.com/blog> | @ooyala<http://www.twitter.com/ooyala>
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