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Re: The Distro Dilemma

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 20:09:49 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> Could you explain why LGPL libraries can be burdensome on embedded systems?

I'm mainly referring to LGPL section 6a.

But let's avoid license interpretations and arguing here. I was mainly trying
to say that both licenses have their benefits to different applications.

BTW, I did smoothen out some of my initial wordings in the document to make it
somewhat more neutral.

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Received on 2005-09-01