Re: Licence of ts-comint

[Richard Stallman]

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  >  In my own company, for example, we can never use GPL libraries,
  > because they carry too much legal burden to be worth it.

Is this because the company makes nonfree programs?

We release a library under the GPL when we want to prevent it from
being used in nonfree programs.  When we decide it is advantageous to
allow use of a certain library in nonfree programs, we release it
under the Leser GPL or something like the libGCC exception.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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