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Re: GUI design
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Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso |
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Re: GUI design |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:06:42 -0400 |
On 29 March 2012 14:54, Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden> wrote:
> The L of LGPL stands for "lesser". I'm not sure what the difference is
> between the LGPL license and the GPL license, but apparently they are
> different:
This essay explains what the LGPL is and how it's meant to be used:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html
I noticed earlier in the discussion about GUI Octave that you seemed
surprised that the GPL doesn't allow certain things. Indeed, it
doesn't. The GPL forbids distributing non-free derivative works. And
here "free" means the same thing that it means in the phrase "a free
man". It doesn't mean a man you don't have to pay for, because that
would be a slave, and slaves are certainly not free. ;-)
Briefly, the LGPL explicitly allows linking with non-free works and
distributing the result, but the GPL doesn't:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License#Differences_from_the_GPL
- Jordi G. H.
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