[postgis-users] liblwgeom and LGPL?

[Greg Troxel]

The point is that people have chosen to make their code available under
a license with reciprocal obligations.  If someone doesn't like that,
they are free not to use that code.

I think some of the reaction to your comments is the appearance of a
presumption that someone who wishes to create proprietary derived works
has some sort of moral entitlement to use other people's code, or that
people with useful code have some sort of duty to let others create
proprietary derived works.  Perhaps you don't mean that, but the notion
that the existence of code under pure GPL is a "problem" tends to
give that appearance.

Even referring to this as a "bug" is part of that appearance.  A bug is
something that is unambiguously wrong and benefits everyone to fix.
Here, we are talking about an explicit policy decision.
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