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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by pksadiq on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @09:25PM (#14047204)
> I think it's a combination of largely unrelated historical trends ...

Some of the facts are still true. Say for example, Qt is now licensed under LGPLv3, which several corporate hate. GTK+ is licensed under LGPLv2.1+.

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by pawadu on Thursday April 06, 2017 @07:07AM (#14049494)
How is LGPLv3 different from the usual binary only libraries the corporate buy??

Also, there is a paid Qt license if you don't like *GPL.

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