[postgis-users] liblwgeom and LGPL?

[Sandro Santilli]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:21:22AM -0700, Brian H Wilson wrote:
> On 3/28/13 12:24 AM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> >To avoid what ? What's the mess ? Preventing derived work from
> >being non-free is a feature. 
>
> Let's say you have built a business around selling a software product.
> If your product is built on a library that has a permissive license
> and the library suddenly becomes GPL (restrictive) then you can no
> longer sell your product.

(1) This is not the case: PostGIS has always been GPL

(2) You can sell GPL software. 

--strk;