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Re: [Fwd: New Bitstream technology comes to Linux and Desktop/LX]



On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 08:16:40PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> David Palmer <davidpalmer@westnet.com.au> writes:
> 
> > Point the second: There seems to be an ever accelerating interest in
> > the proprietary section toward incorporating free/open source
> > software into "hybrid" environments. This has a double implication
> > for me - (1) Proprietary vendors wanting to incorporate FOSS to
> > extend and enhance marketability of their product/s.
> 
> I'm unhappy that a Linux vendor is putting nonfree software at the
> core of their distribution.  However, won't this library be impossible
> to link with [L]GPL code, making it illegal to distribute software
> built against it, such as libpango and the whole of GNOME and KDE?

GPL only. Otherwise yes.

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