On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Rogelio Serrano <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn <[email protected]> wrote: >> Laurent Bercot wrote at 06:46 (EST): >>> I am afraid that the uncompromising, unforgiving nature of the GPL >>> will turn against it in the future, and harm more than promote >>> widespread distribution of GPL'ed software - something that GPL >>> zealots generally refuse to see. >> >> It's entirely possible this could be the case. I don't really believe >> it is, but all we have is some second-hand, anecdotal evidence on either >> side of the debate, so it's tough to know for sure. >> >> But that's not a new debate: it's the fundamental debate >> that goes back 20 years between those that prefer permissive licenses >> and those that prefer copyleft. There are reasonable arguments on both >> sides, of course. >> > > i dont agree. its just business economics at work. is it going to be > cheaper in the long run to contribute or not? when its more economical > to contribute then its better to gpl.
In order to see that you need vision, and you need some basic understanding of how open source works. Sadly, a lot of people don't have those, and instead believe in FUD, and make decisions based on that. > when you have intellectual property issues you will hate gpl. i have > worked with companies with no IP issues whatsoever and the gpl is > perfect. Agreed. Unfortunately most, if not all, big companies have IP. Sony for example. -- Felipe Contreras _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
