Re: [cairo] Pango License

[Ineiev <ineiev gmail com>]

Bill Spitzak wrote:
> Personally I feel the LGPL restrictions are not only painful,

There is hardly any pain when your program is free.

> they serve 
> no useful purpose and are actually counter productive. For any 
> non-system library the ability to replace the library with a new version 
> is useless if that new version does not have the same ABI. And it is 
> very rare that a program can take advantage of new features of the 
> library unless the program is recompiled.

It still can take advantage of bugfixes.

> So the end user gets nothing, 
> and the developer is discouraged from using the library, which hurts the 
> developers of the library by decreasing it's appeal.

I'm sorry, I'll repeat: the developer of _proprietary_ applications.