[Mono-list] - C# / OpenGL and System.Windows.Forms on

[Simon Waite]

<rant>
Linking to a GPL library forces your app to to be GPL too.

LGPL is not "lesser" in anyway (even though it's called that) it's
appropriate
for libraries.

I have not problems as a commercial entity using LGPLed portions, hell, if I
kill a bug, I have to distribute my patch! It's called giving back.

GPLing your own work is typically a way to make sure noone else can "steal"
your code and sell it (nothing stopping you dual licensing it)
</rant>

It all depends on your own reasons for releasing your software. Having your
LGPLed code in commercial products is quite cool, and would be impressive
on your resume.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Treat" <manyoso@yahoo.com>
To: "Freddy BL" <freddy_bl@hotmail.com>; <mono-list@ximian.com>;
<sebastien.dedieu@free.fr>
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Mono-list] - C# / OpenGL and System.Windows.Forms on


> --- Freddy BL <freddy_bl@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > CsGL is licensed under the MIT/BSD-license. Thats license is ok, I
think.
> > The Mesa3D-library is licensed under an similar BSD-license.
> > At your project-page under http://sourceforge.net/projects/monoglo there
> > stand "License: GNU General Public License (GPL)". Thats what I don't
like.
> > MonoGLo is a library. So BSD/MIT is ok and LGPL is ok, but not GPL!
> > (Btw: Adam have choosen for Qt# the same license) :-(
>
> Could you please explain *why* you think the GPL is not acceptable for
libraries?  The GPL is one
> of the most widely used Free Software licenses.  The LGPL license is known
as the *lesser* license
> and was created for strategic reasons not because of any principle that
'libraries should be free
> for proprietary developers'.  Do you wish to create proprietary software
with MonoGlo?
>
> Adam
>
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