On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 5:36 AM, Felipe Almeida Lessa < felipe.lessa@gmail.com> wrote:
A GPLed containers forces the library user to somehow get a way of complying to the license.
The language here needs some clarification: the GPL (or other free copyleft license) only "forces" someone to do something under very particular circumstances, which could be characterised as: 1. They are planning on distributing non-free software, and, 2. They haven't made a special agreement with the copyright holder. I would hope that condition 1 does not hold for a large proportion of library users. Those users should not be scared away from copyleft. Using it has the advantage of offering a reason to push those on the fence about whether to make their software free.