[LUNI] NetBSD founder says LGPL would have been better

Martin Maney maney at two14.net
Fri Sep 15 17:44:50 CDT 2006


  "In retrospect I think this was naive; if you look at the history,
  you'll see that neither CSRG nor the X Consortium were really
  successful in getting third parties to contribute back most of their
  changes--and so what we really got in both cases was a long list of
  derived but very different, and often incompatible, systems. ... If I
  were doing it again, I might very well switch to the LGPL."

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/09/14/netbsd_future.html

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