Re: Combining proprietary code and GPL for in-house use

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net> writes:

> LGPL achieves it too. The only extra thing GPL says is that
> "if you reuse my code, I'm not satisfied that you keep MY
> code free. The code YOU write by yourself must also have MY
> license."

Well, that depends on the case.  I'm generally happy with the LGPL
too.  

> Secrecy fulfills no rational purpose at all here. You cannot fix
> your hole without making its existense public, and - contrary
> to software security - there is *no way* to retroactively fix the
> compromised implementations already employed.

Hrm, there is some merit to what you say here.