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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes
From:       Wouter Verhelst <wouter () debian ! org>
Date:       2006-05-12 10:36:13
Message-ID: 20060512103613.GD10192 () country ! grep ! be
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On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 05:35:35PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> wrote:
> > Seconds, since when do we consider the GPL to be viral?
> 
> Don't know about you, but the FSF does - it has created the LGPL because
> of this.

Actually, they don't. They consider the GPL a perfectly valid license
for a library; however, they also consider that in some cases, it *may*
be better to use the LGPL instead. Just not all of them.

Why do you think they
* Never released libreadline under anything else than the GPL,
* Renamed the LGPL from the "Library GPL" to the "Lesser GPL"?

-- 
Fun will now commence
  -- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4


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