The Free Software Foundation is discouraging use of the LGPL; why is mozilla.org encouraging its use?
The goals of the Mozilla project are different than those of the FSF. We believe that using the LGPL in the new triple license provides advantages to those developers committed to (or locked into) use of the LGPL, while preserving freedoms important to software users and those developers using the GPL for their own software. The goals of the Free Software Foundation are to promote the creation of free software and to discourage the creation of proprietary (non-free) software. Thus the FSF now discourages the use of the LGPL (which allows free software libraries to be included in proprietary software) and encourages the licensing of all software under the GPL, so that any derivative works of that software will also be licensed under those same GPL terms. However the intent of the Mozilla licensing arrangements has been and will continue to be to allow Mozilla code to be combined with other (non-Mozilla code) to create “larger works” which could (if desired) be distributed under differen
