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LGPL is NOT compatible with Cygwin's license (GPL+exceptions)

LGPL is NOT compatible with Cygwin's license (GPL+exceptions)

Posted Nov 20, 2008 12:35 UTC (Thu) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474)
In reply to: LGPL is NOT compatible with Cygwin's license (GPL+exceptions) by fuhchee
Parent article: MinGW and why Linux users should care

LGPL protects the libvirt code while not imposing itself on other code that we didn't write.

As a free software developer yourself, you should know the difference between public domain, LGPL
and GPL.


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