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Not everyone can or wants to use the GPL. We don't live in an ideal, purely altruistic world.
by sspiff 11y ago
Not everyone can or wants to use the GPL. We don't live in an ideal, purely altruistic world.
- fceller 11y ago+1 There are even a lot of other OPEN SOURCE projects with licenses (Apache, BSD) which cannot use readline because of their restricted GPL (instead of LGPL).
- mkesper 11y agoWell, this isn't correct, it's just that the result would have to be distributed under terms of GPL. (Assuming the license is GPL compatible, which most of the ones you mentioned are).