"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
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> If I include libjpg without modifying it at all, I can no longer use the
MIT
> license on my code,

So what? It's not your god given right to be able to use MIT license.

It's your option, however, to not use libjpg, if you don't agree to the
license.

> even if my code is orders of magnitude larger and more
> valuable.

That's neither here nor there. People don't have a right to code that's less
valuable than theirs.

> This forces me, while building something large that I need to get
> paid for, to rewrite code that's already tested and works well and is
> bug-free and safe. Hence, GPL code leads to bugs in non-GPL code.

That's some convoluted thinking. Libjpg is an option. You can take it or
leave it. Its existance doesn't force anything on you.

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