Re: [gNewSense-users] [Fwd: Re: texfont.C and texfont.h license]

[Frederique W. Piccart]

On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:35:31 -0500, Ted Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 19:12 +0000, Frederique W. Piccart wrote:
>> On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:46:46 +0100, ben <address@hidden>
wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > 
>> > attached you'll find Mark Kilgard's answer to my request of him
freeing
>> > his code.
>> > 
>> > Greetings
>> > ben
>> 
>> LGPL it is then?
>> 
> 
> Why not AGPL? It isn't the GPL, and probably avoids the hole that was
> referred to by calling the GPL "restrictive" -- the author probably
> wants to avoid his software from being used in proprietary web
> applications.
> 
> ;-)

Some people call GPL restrictive because it forces you to give freedom to
the end user. I believe he meant this.