[Drawkit] DrawKit license

[David Catmull]

On May 12, 2008, at 6:44 PM, Graham Cox wrote:
> If the LGPL covers all of these, then I expect we can change to use  
> the LGPL.


I once tried using LGPL for one of my libraries, but when I took a  
closer look I found it wasn't going to work. In particular, there is a  
requirement that users be able to swap in alternate versions of your  
library, which effectively means it has to be packaged as a framework.  
You may not want to require that.

In my case I had a library that consisted largely of inline functions  
(wrapping Carbon toolbox calls), and you can't swap those out after  
build time. So my library was actually technically incompatible with  
the LGPL.

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