'GPL encumbrance problems'

[Andy Green]

Mike McCarty wrote:

>> That's why these complaints seem really churlish to me, ignoring the
>> boon to you and only complaining about your contribution back.
> 
> One issue with this is in deployment in concert with development.
> Let's say that a company is going to build a new device, and wants
> to put an OS on an embedded computer, and develop some applications
> to run on it. This company does not want to divulge its trade
> secrets to the whole world for copying. Special techniques which
> may, for example, allow a cell phone to use lower power and still
> achieve good range, hence not cooking your brain.
> 
> Do they chose to deploy Linux+GNU? They do not. Because if they
> do, then the LGPL will cause them to have to supply, along with

Please read

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-January/msg02996.html

Just dynamically link to the LGPL'd libs.

-Andy
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