Picking a license

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Thu May 13 20:12:48 EDT 2010


Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 13 May 2010 06:24:04 -0700, Ed Keith wrote:
> 
>> --- On Thu, 5/13/10, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
>> <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
>>> What have you got against LGPL for this purpose? --
>>>
>> Most of my clients would not know how to relink a program if their life
>> depended on it. And I do not want to put then in DLL hell. So I avoid
>> the LGPL.
> 
> 
> Are you implying that by distributing your libraries under the MIT or 
> Apache licence, no linking is required? That's a cool trick, can you 
> explain how it works please?

I believe he is implying that with MIT or Apache, he is able to do all 
the compiling/linking/generating himself, thus saving his customers the 
effort.

You're a smart man, Steven, surely you could have figured that out?  ;)

~Ethan~



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