On Thursday 01 Jan 2009 9:14:49 am Praveen A wrote:
2008/12/31 Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org:
anyway, one good thing is that I have now learned the difference between GPL and LGPL (I was under the impression that LGPL meant Lesser GPL - something that is not so strict as GPL). I was vaguely contemplating switching from wxPython to pyQT - now I realise how dangerous that is. Lesson: before using a library, make sure it is not under GPL.
... if you plan not to use GPL for your code.
"Proprietary software developers have the advantage of money; free software developers need to make advantages for each other. Using the ordinary GPL for a library gives free software developers an advantage over proprietary developers: a library that they can use, while proprietary developers cannot use it."
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.