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by adsche 1741 days ago
Curious, what license(s) prevented you from using a library?

Or maybe rather, what does "use" mean here?
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nonbirithm 1741 days ago
GPL, and in some cases source-available codebases produced by decompilation.

"Use" in this case means to have some feature that's implemented by those libraries reimplemented in an open-source project (MIT-licensed).

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ShrigmaMale 1741 days ago
GPLv2, which is viral.
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jeltz 1741 days ago
GPL by some quite popular interpretations of what derivate work means. I do not personally agree but those interpretations are common enough to be a real concern and I do not think it has been tested in court yet (GPL has been tested in court but I do not think this particular aspect has).
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