Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port?

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Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port?
by Ray on Friday 09/Jan/2004, @08:51

WRONG! If the lib is GPL'ed and you link to it, your app is now infected and GPL'ed. Like it or not, but using a GPL'ed lib, you have been forced to donate your app to the great Open Source community.

If the lib was LGPL'ed, then you're only obligated to return your changes to the lib back to the community.

The later is fair, because you're returning changes you've made to the open source lib back to the community. The former isn't, because the GPL has infected your app and the cost isn't keeping the lib and any improvements free and open, but a forced donation of your effort to expand the amount of free and open software under the viral GPL.

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