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Yet another library that uses GPL 3 and not LGPL 3. Why?



No doubt because the author doesn't want it to be used in proprietary software that doesn't respect the user's freedoms. At least, not without taking a cut.


From the website:

> Note: aubio is not MIT or BSD licensed. Contact the author if you need it in your commercial product.


The LGPL was never meant for all libraries, only certain specific ones (which the FSF thought were better to more permissively license because of practical reasons.) That's one reason they renamed it from "Library GPL" to "Lesser GPL"




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