2 Jan
2009
2 Jan
'09
4:50 a.m.
On Thursday 01 January 2009 15:28, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
according to this, the whole idea of licensing libraries under GPL instead of LGPL is to *prevent* those libraries from being used for proprietary software and *force* the programmers to write free software. Is this what is happening here? These people are enjoying the best of both worlds - a great con.
Only some people. Like trolltech and Nokia who owned all the code before releasing it GPL. I am not aware of the status of external contributions though. Do trolltech require assignment of copyrights?
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