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one of them has gNU and the other has gPL!!!!

The GNU is the Lesser General Public Licence or LGPL (formerly the GNU Library General Public Licence).

The main difference between them is that the LGP lets work to be linked to a non-(L)GPLed programme whether it is free software or proprietary software.

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