Ray,
By "mess" I mainly meant that the Arduino team should have at least clearly
noted the license on each library and not made statements that it is all LGPL.
In terms of open source philosophy, it is very much like religion and people tend to have very strong views.
I'm pretty much right there with you.
And that is why all my open source libraries are GPL v3 and why I won't get involved in
any more projects that are not GPL v3.
My view is I'll share mine only if you share yours.
I think if the Arduino team had really wanted everything to be open, they could have
chosen to use GPL v3 vs LGPL v2.1 whenever possible.
But from my past conversations with some of the library developers,
their view was very much against the GPL v3 philosophy of forced sharing
being the price of using the code.
--- bill