Posted by: Per Abrahamsen
on January 06, 2004 01:37 AM
The LGPL (and other non-copylefts used by the FSF) are there for pragmatic reasons. Sometimes they are needed in order to compete for mindshare with an existing library, and sometimes the beefit by expected contributions to the library that come back from developers of proprietary software outweight the loss of initiative to create a free version of the program to solve the problems solved by the proprietary software.
It is not clear that Sun would have switched from CDE to Gnome if it hadn't been for the LGPL, and Sun has contributed a lot to Gnome.
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Pragmatic reasons
Posted by: Per Abrahamsen on January 06, 2004 01:37 AMIt is not clear that Sun would have switched from CDE to Gnome if it hadn't been for the LGPL, and Sun has contributed a lot to Gnome.
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