LGPL is NOT compatible with Cygwin's license (GPL+exceptions)
LGPL is NOT compatible with Cygwin's license (GPL+exceptions)
Posted Nov 20, 2008 12:36 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: LGPL is NOT compatible with Cygwin's license (GPL+exceptions) by fuhchee
Parent article: MinGW and why Linux users should care
This is a *management layer*. It's going to get used by people who have existing virtualization systems and want to manage them. Nobody, but nobody is going to say 'hey! my management layer uses GPL, so I should switch virtualization systems to one that is GPL!'. They'll just not use libvirt.
This is a classic example of a library that is better LGPLed than GPLed.