Vote Status #2 + Bob Thompson
The results now are:
GPL: 1 vote (~8 percent)
LGPL: 6 votes (50 percent) <*>
3-C BSD: 2 votes (~16 percent)
4-C BSD: 1 vote (~8 percent)
X11 MIT: 1 vote (~8 percent)
MPL: 1 vote (~8 percent)
No votes yet for the remaining licenses.
<*> CChris (Christian Cuvier) has e-mailed me stating that she prefers not to
share her email address with Yahoo and asked me to count her vote as LGPL.
Bob,
LGPL is less restrictive than GPL in that it allows coders to either statically
or dynamically link open-source LGPL libraries with their close-source
commercial/proprietary software without infringing on any licensing terms.
This is very important because if Euphoria's libraries were to become GPL rather
than LGPL, programs linking to them must also comply with the rules governing the
GPL (I think). This would be problematic if you licensed your programs under a
non-GPL compatible license (like CDDL or commercial EULA).
Since some people here develop commercial software, it is in their best interest
not to vote for the regular GPL. 
Regards,
Vincent
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