Name: Anonymous 2012-11-09 4:09
I know a few libraries with permissive licenses that have had intense success on a commercial scale for what I assume was their intended goal, like libjpeg, OpenSSL, perhaps half of the *BSD code, Ruby on Snails.
What was the the LGPL supposed to accomplish exactly? Everything of note I've seen uses a modified LGPL with explicit exceptions because the manifesto-like language and the need for lawyers just to make sure their $100 million investment won't end up GPL because it became a ``derived work'' of some 20 line lolcode library. Has vanilla LGPL licensed stuff ever voluntarily found itself in commercial software? Dual licensing schemes to pay away the LGPL altogether doesn't count.
What was the the LGPL supposed to accomplish exactly? Everything of note I've seen uses a modified LGPL with explicit exceptions because the manifesto-like language and the need for lawyers just to make sure their $100 million investment won't end up GPL because it became a ``derived work'' of some 20 line lolcode library. Has vanilla LGPL licensed stuff ever voluntarily found itself in commercial software? Dual licensing schemes to pay away the LGPL altogether doesn't count.