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by loup-vaillant 4069 days ago
Too bad proprietary projects can't link against it. A loss for us all.

Seriously? GPL stuff can be used with any internal stuff, and almost any Free stuff. Isn't that enough? Where is the loss exactly?

Edit: okay, that wasn't the author's intention, and the consistency argument is a good one (least astonishment and all that). Still, the general argument holds.