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>But wait, that doesn't really make sense. What is the LGPL guarding against that make it any better than MIT/BSD? With LGPL you can replace the shared library
by wolfgke 10y ago
>But wait, that doesn't really make sense. What is the LGPL guarding against that make it any better than MIT/BSD?
With LGPL you can replace the shared library by a version that you built/updated/... (thus gives freedom) which is not possible for MIT/BSD libraries.
- _ph_ 10y agoOf course you can do the same with MIT/BSD libraries. Nothing in those licenses prevents that. To be fair, in contrast to the LGPL, the BSD/MIT licenses do not explicitly require the ability, this does not remove it. And whether an user is actually able to rebuild and replace a LGPL library in practice is another question.