He's wrong about the LGPL not existing

He's wrong about the LGPL not existing

Posted Sep 16, 2006 20:55 UTC (Sat) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Interesting quote by man_ls
Parent article: Confessions of a Recovering NetBSD Zealot (O'ReillyNet)

The LGPL existed in 1992, before the first NetBSD release, so it was an option that the NetBSD people could have used. But RMS was never particularly comfortable with it and did not promote it the way he promoted the GPL; I think it was the Cygnus people who convinced him that the LGPL was necessary.

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