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Re: [Help-gsl] Why not LGPL?
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Frank Reininghaus |
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Re: [Help-gsl] Why not LGPL? |
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Thu, 5 Nov 2009 23:33:31 +0100 |
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On Thursday 05 November 2009 22:57:56 Leo Razoumov wrote:
> GSL is licensed under GPL which precludes its use together with less
> restrictive libraries in the same application. To address this issue
> LGPL license (Library GPL) was created. Is there any good reason for
> GSL to stick with GPL over LGPL??
Have a look at
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html
You should also note that a license change is only possible if everyone who
made a non-trivial code contribution agrees.
Cheers,
Frank