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Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) by berkut on Sunday November 15, 2020 @08:03PM (#25106754)
? It's LGPL, so as long as you link dynamically, it's fine for proprietary software to use it. A lot of commercial proprietary software in the VFX industry does this (Nuke, Katana, Mari, Maya, Houdini, etc).
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Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) by est31 on Sunday November 15, 2020 @10:25PM (#25107626)
IDK a lot of proprietary developers don't understand the LGPL and are scared by its copyleft. They like how simple the MIT license is.

Also, apple's app store is famously LGPL-incompatible.

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Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) by heavyset_go on Monday November 16, 2020 @01:29AM (#25108741)
> Also, apple's app store is famously LGPL-incompatible.

If you're shipping a proprietary application that links to LGPL libraries in accordance to the license, that's fine.

It's GPL applications that the App Store bans.

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Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) by est31 on Monday November 16, 2020 @04:16AM (#25109713)
Not a lawyer but LGPLv3 contains the anti tivoization rule, which might cause issues with the mandatory signing.
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