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0 pointsdrewdevault2y ago0 comments

They exist to serve the bottom line, and if the bottom line is best served by evaluating and approving the LGPL license (a trivial task, as it is broadly understood and the compliance requirements are negligible for most users), then that's what they will do. And in any case, no one is categorically opposed to the LGPL. Unless you think that no one is using Linux in industry, given that it uses a stronger license (GPL), which is patently absurd.

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dani08542y ago

> And in any case, no one is categorically opposed to the LGPL.

That's not exactly true, take android as an example, which has a policy of "no GPL in user space", if I recall correctly.

I do however believe that due to drivers and other things, GPL is beneficial in Linux kernel, but that rather an exception. And also Linux is GPLv2, which is a big difference to GPLv3 (and so to LGPLv3).

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