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The GPL is designed to encourage sharingThe GPL is designed to encourage sharingPosted Dec 11, 2008 20:56 UTC (Thu) by bignose (subscriber, #40)In reply to: Free Software Foundation files suit against Cisco for GPL violations by salimma Parent article: Free Software Foundation files suit against Cisco for GPL violations
> when the subject matter is esoteric enough, the GPLed library is sometimes the only good implementation, making the use restriction rather frustrating.
That's pretty much the point. If you want to benefit from the freedom you receive in a GPLed implementation, then you don't get to restrict the freedom of recipients of your derived work.
Frustrating the efforts of those who want to restrict software recipients's freedoms is a big part of the design of the GPL. It sounds like the GPL is working as designed.
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History of LGPL Posted Dec 11, 2008 21:47 UTC (Thu) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link] LGPL was always for standard or clone libraries that made it possible to build UN*X applications on GNU. For libraries that gave you something new, the GPL Even the GNU Readline library was released under GPL (which resulted in BSD Editline as a clone under a non-reciprocal license).
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