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? It's LGPL, so as long as you link dynamically, it's fine for proprietary software to use it. A lot of commercial proprietary software in the VFX industry does
by berkut 6y ago
? It's LGPL, so as long as you link dynamically, it's fine for proprietary software to use it. A lot of commercial proprietary software in the VFX industry does this (Nuke, Katana, Mari, Maya, Houdini, etc).
- est31 6y agoIDK a lot of proprietary developers don't understand the LGPL and are scared by its copyleft. They like how simple the MIT license is. Also, apple's app store is famously LGPL-incompatible.
- heavyset_go 6y ago> Also, apple's app store is famously LGPL-incompatible. If you're shipping a proprietary application that links to LGPL libraries in accordance to the license, that's fine. It's GPL applications that the App Store bans.
- est31 6y agoNot a lawyer but LGPLv3 contains the anti tivoization rule, which might cause issues with the mandatory signing.