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Re: LGPL


On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Bart van der Werf (Bluelive) wrote:

> Will the cygwin.dll become LGPL at one time in the future?
> The viral GPL clause really makes me not want to use it with my BSD
> licensed application.

(Furthering the FUD about the GPL being "viral" could cause a lot of people to
buy into a lot of connotations that are very unfair. Might I suggest the term
"copyleft" instead? I'll take counter arguments offlist.)

-- 
Daniel Mikkelsen
Copyleft Software AS


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