[42e6e8c8-f7b8-4]

Not at all hypocritical. The people who authored the code release most of it under LGPL, the intention of which is to allow closed-source dynamic linking against the LGPL'd library. I didn't decide this. The users didn't decide this. The people who actually wrote the code decided this.

[LtWorf]

But people still complain that using it for free is too restrictive and want static linking and freedom to modify the sources and not share the changes, all for free.