Updated license - please comment

[Mark Rafn]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Rod Dixon wrote:

> I think there are two issues here: [1] the section 2a requirement that
> limits the rights granted to the public distribution of libraries and [2]
> the licensor's intent to permit dynamic linking of the open source library
> with non-free software. If this is correct, then section 3 of the LGPL,
> which seems to allow an irreversible switch to the GPL, is not pertinent
> to the licensor's need.

It may not be pertinent to the licensor's need.  I very much hope it is 
pertinent to OSI's need to restrict use of it's service mark only to 
software which can be freely modified.

I may be in the minority here, but I'm rather surprised to find this to be 
the case.
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