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From: Alex Holden ####@####.####
Date: 12 May 1999 18:42:03 -0000
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On Wed, 12 May 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > in the same position, but I'm not quite sure how to avoid it if we GPL
> > everything. Perhaps if we LGPLed the API, but not the core code?
> If the client library is LGPL I don't see why people think there is a problem

The problem is that in some situations people will want to write a
proprietory application or window manager and link them directly into the
server, for reasons of memory usage or that their platform doesn't have
any inbuilt networking or multitasking support.

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