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but can be used by any free software project.

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In the article it says:

but can be used by any free software project.

The GnuLIB is under the LGPL, so why should it only be usable by free software projects? 84.140.199.26 (talk) 15:15, 10 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Firstly, the statement that it can be used by any free software project does not imply that it can only be used by free software projects.

Secondly, only parts of Gnulib are licensed under LGPL.

For example, Fedora lists the following license expression for version 55.20251223git.fc43: Public Domain and BSD and GPLv2+ and GPLv3 and GPLv3+ and LGPLv2 and LGPLv2+ and LGPLv3+

Meaning that some Gnulib routines are licensed differently. Gms (talk) 23:49, 28 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

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but can be used by any free software project.