Jeremy makes a persuasive argument for LGPL

Roland roland at netquant.com.br
Mon Feb 18 18:33:00 CST 2002


At 01:58 PM 2/18/02 -0600, Sean Farley wrote:

>They have release Darwin as well as an NFS testing tool.  FreeBSD did
>benefit a lot from that testing tool.

Yes, I have read that by now. This is another point in favour of the BSD 
license.

>Besides, as the owner of a company, he can always decide not to develop
>code for those potential customers who wish to keep the resulting code
>closed.

Of course he can do that. But this means losing a lot of customers to other 
companies. The xGPL would prevent this.

Roland





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