POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : The FSF refuses to answer my questions about LGPL : Re: The FSF refuses to answer my questions about LGPL Server Time
4 Sep 2024 11:22:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The FSF refuses to answer my questions about LGPL  
From: Neeum Zawan
Date: 3 Feb 2010 22:50:52
Message: <4b6a441c$1@news.povray.org>
On 02/03/10 19:02, Warp wrote:
>> I can sympathize. If you're going to get paid for using what they gave for 
>> free, then you can afford to pay them to find out what they mean.
> 
>   Most LGPL libraries out there are not owned by the FSF. It's not like it's
> *their* loss.

	Well, it's their loss in time, which to them is money.

>> Seems fair. you're asking them to work for you for free, so you can safely 
>> use their freely-offered software, to make money that you won't give any of 
>> to them. :-)
> 
>   If they don't want to get "abused" like that, then why did they create
> the LGPL license in the first place?

	Demand.

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