Warp wrote:
> Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
>> But it seriously limits the use for open source software in commercial
>> products.
> 
>   GPL doesn't only limit the use of GPL'd software in commercial products,
> it limits its use in *all* products which are not GPL, including open
> source projects. Thus it's hugely restrictive.

Currently, closed-source program 'ccc' can link to BSD-licensed
library 'bbb', but not to GPL-licensed library 'ggg'. But 'bbb' can't link
to 'ggg' either, which is what you're complaining about.

This is because otherwise, bbb could link to ggg, then ccc could link to bbb
and end up indirectly linking to GPL code (ggg).

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