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Free Software Foundation files suit against Cisco for GPL violations

Free Software Foundation files suit against Cisco for GPL violations

Posted Dec 12, 2008 20:50 UTC (Fri) by salimma (subscriber, #34460)
In reply to: Free Software Foundation files suit against Cisco for GPL violations by dlang
Parent article: Free Software Foundation files suit against Cisco for GPL violations

Even more bizarre would be Trolltech's use of GPL+exceptions. One of the exceptions for Qt is if it's linked to a BSD-licensed code -- if this BSD-licensed code is just a wrapper that is then linked to from proprietary code, they might as well have used LGPL from the start and avoid the exception mess.

That's pretty much my problem with FSF's over-promotion of GPL. The percentage of software out there that is effectively GPLed might be lower than one might think.


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