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red_admiraltoday at 4:22 PM2 repliesview on HN

Why LGPL when the original license is more permissive? (https://sourceware.org/bzip2/manual/manual.html)


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atiedebeetoday at 4:34 PM

bzip3 is not made by the same author as bzip2, that's why there is a licence disparity.

LtWorftoday at 4:36 PM

Please stop questioning people's choice of license.

If you don't like it, you're entitled to not using it.