Proposed SIG: Windows MinGW cross-compiler SIG
Yaakov Nemoy
loupgaroublond at gmail.com
Fri Jul 11 14:31:00 UTC 2008
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
<snip>
> If we only provided GPL'd libraries for libvirt on Windows they simply
> won't use libvirt or Fedora virtualization, pushing more people towards
> closed source virt solutuons like VMWare
Actually, if you read the rationals for the LGPL vs. GPL, it's stated
that the GPL is better in a situation where ther are no alternatives
at all. It forces an otherwise new market to stick to being as Open
as possible. Whereas in situations where there are already closed
source solutions, the LGPL is an alternative since it is more
flexible. While this isn't optimal, it's clearly a better license in
this situation.
+1
-Yaakov
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