Mike McCarty wrote: >> That's why these complaints seem really churlish to me, ignoring the >> boon to you and only complaining about your contribution back. > > One issue with this is in deployment in concert with development. > Let's say that a company is going to build a new device, and wants > to put an OS on an embedded computer, and develop some applications > to run on it. This company does not want to divulge its trade > secrets to the whole world for copying. Special techniques which > may, for example, allow a cell phone to use lower power and still > achieve good range, hence not cooking your brain. > > Do they chose to deploy Linux+GNU? They do not. Because if they > do, then the LGPL will cause them to have to supply, along with Please read https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-January/msg02996.html Just dynamically link to the LGPL'd libs. -Andy
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