It's easy: LGPL software is free, but can be used or linked with non-free software. The first letter is "L", for "Lesser", because it protects less; its only purpose is to distribute libraries that might become de-facto standards.
In the case of applications, hybrids don't only promote the free parts; for example, pixelTango is optimised for OSX because it is mainly developed on OSX, so it promotes OSX more than GNU/Linux. But I promote pixelTango to OSX users when I can, hoping they might eventually want use a free OS.
Happy Piksel!
Marc
Le 16 Août 2005 11:45, B. Bogart a écrit :
If it was so easy to draw the line between free and non-free then things like the LGPL would not have any purpose. I think we're going to have to deal with commercial/free hybrids, which is not at all bad as long as the hybrids highlight and promote the free parts...
Seems like Darwin and Apple are not playing nice lately.
Yes, I'm bringing the powerbook to piksel, and not lugging my AMD64/Debian mobo.
B.
Marc Lavallée wrote:
Le 16 Août 2005 11:15, 220hex a écrit :
Monday 15 August 2005 01:20, skrev Yves Degoyon:
Mathieu Bouchard a écrit :
Hey, anyone here going to Piksel'05 ?
don't forget they're extremists and can't stand any windows users ))
total bollocks ;)
we might well be extremists, but windows is accepted as well as OSX, as long as the user-space apps is open-source.
It'a getting difficult to draw a line between the user-space apps and the root-space os. Using "open source" (I prefer the term free) on non-free platforms is one way to promote freedom for users, but it's far from enough. The first words on the Piksel web site are: "Piksel is a yearly event for artists and developers working with Free Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) for realtime processing of video and sound." Since Windows and OSX are non-free softwares, the Piksel people should logically be extreme extremists... ;-) -- Marc
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