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Re: GPL question


From: Alexander Terekhov
Subject: Re: GPL question
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:12:26 +0100

me@davecotter.com wrote:
[...]
> you can totally blow off the GPL and treat it like LGPL??

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[...]

sections of the LGPL are an impenetrable maze of technological
babble. They should not be in a general-purpose software license.

[...]

The LGPL concedes that the GPL is a better, more appropriate license,
and it allows any licensees to convert to the GPL at their option:

   You may opt to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU General
   Public License

[...]

The LGPL, therefore, is an anomaly
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http://www.rosenlaw.com/Rosen_Ch06.pdf 

See the light now?

regards,
alexander.


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