On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Stefan Monnier
That still leaves anyone free to use LGPL if they want to, but please don't assume that it allows commercial use by all potential users.
It *does* allow commercial use. Your example just shows that some people may decide not to take advantage of it, based not on problematic restrictions but just on paranoia.
I was confused and worried about this subject lately, too; at some point in the future, I may want to ship closed-source commercial software that uses various LGPL libraries. But it doesn't seem to be as big a problem as I imagined. My understanding is that I can satisfy the requirements of the LGPL by dynamically linking, and that's already happening. Is there something else to worry about? I'd be in violation if I shipped something statically linked, but cabal doesn't seem inclined to do that by default.