History of LGPL

Posted Dec 11, 2008 21:47 UTC (Thu) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)
In reply to: The GPL is designed to encourage sharing by bignose
Parent article: Free Software Foundation files suit against Cisco for GPL violations

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).