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> "But you'll gain more users" has never been a reason for the FSF to compromise on their principles. Wasn't that the main motivation for the LGPL?
by greggman 14y ago
> "But you'll gain more users" has never been a reason for the FSF to compromise on their principles.
Wasn't that the main motivation for the LGPL?
- DannyBee 14y agoKinda. It was more "it would only hurt us", though in practice, the way it was likely to hurt them was through lower usage. The official statement is: "Using the ordinary GPL is not advantageous for every library. There are reasons that can make it better to use the Lesser GPL in certain cases. The most common case is when a free library's features are readily available for proprietary software through other alternative libraries. In that case, the library cannot give free software any particular advantage, so it is better to use the Lesser GPL for that library. This is why we used the Lesser GPL for the GNU C library. After all, there are plenty of other C libraries; using the GPL for ours would have driven proprietary software developers to use another—no problem for them, only for us."