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Re:Proposal for a full-fledged C String by colburnmh on Thursday July 07, 2022 @12:35PM (#32016154)
MIT might be a better license for broad adoption. Both GPL and LGPL are viral licenses. They serve a purpose, but you need to assess if that purpose is the same as yours.
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Re:Proposal for a full-fledged C String by alcover on Thursday July 07, 2022 @01:20PM (#32016719)
Would you object to MIT now and GPL/dual later when mature ? Though I suppose the license doesn't count when people are just trying the lib (which they seemingly don't..)
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Re:Proposal for a full-fledged C String by OmarAssadi on Monday July 11, 2022 @03:35PM (#32060718)
If it were dual-licensed, I think it’d be hard to find anyone who’d object. GPL is scary to me, though, since I prefer to license my stuff under pretty unrestrictive licenses, and I don’t really want to deal with the virality.
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Re:Proposal for a full-fledged C String by iExploder on Thursday July 07, 2022 @02:14PM (#32017405)
exactly my thoughts, generally GPL any version or (L)GPLv3 or greater means your library will never be included in a commercial product, hence crippling the mass adaption
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