On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Jack Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: > i don't think open-source means more adoption. i suspect that 99% of > gcc users just want it to work and have no interest in the internals.
But that 1% can be quite significant, since other people follow their lead. Also, there are people and groups that require open source. I do not know what open source would do to isi's business relations nor their future. I imagine open sourcing the J engine would have both positive and negative effects, and I do not know how they would all play out. But I do think that the positive aspects would include some adoption. That said: note also that even with a GPL'd version of the J engine there would still be some room for a proprietary license (since the GPL places rather strict requirements on the software it can be linked with). In fact, a lot of the current usage (based on the downloaded files) would not be permissible under the GPL. But the ramifications of making the engine available under several different licenses probably warrants spending a little time with a really good copyright lawyer, with software expertise. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
