On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 20:08, Philip Balister <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/09/2011 11:57 AM, Michael Dickens wrote: >> >> Intellectual Property: Many people / companies view the GPL as being >> incompatible with IP -- and, whether true or not, this perception is >> certainly an issue. To make progress here, maybe GNU Radio could take >> Ettus' UHD dual-license approach, if that is still possible? I don't know >> if the FSF (the copyright owner) would allow such a change; further, even >> with that change, I think a separate company would need to be setup to deal >> with the non-GPL license. I think having a less-restrictive license than >> the GPL would encourage adoption of GNU Radio in places where IP is an >> issue. - MLD
That's true - people don't like GPL and a good library has to do something about it. > I don't see any point trying to appease the free software is anti IP crowd. > They will just invent new excuses. It is our job to help these people > understand how things really work. > > I'm also less inclined to contribute to projects using BSD style licenses > since I see no benefit to me, to contribute to a project that can be used > for profit by people who do not plan to share the code with their customers. I believe that a library should use LGPL instead of a "clean" GPL. Then all contributions to the library are shared with the community, while people are still allowed to build their black boxes. Re-licensing of GnuRadio as LGPL would be a big step towards much higher popularity. > Anyway, the largest generator of dollars in the free software world is the > Linux kernel, and that is GPL. So economics suggest GPL is the way to go. That's not true, Linux kernel itself doesn't generate $$$. And to say truth - Linux kernel allows you (1) to load binary proprietary drivers without open-sourcing them and (2) to use it with user-space programs without open-sourcing them. And this makes Linux kernel such an awesome thing. GnuRadio must follow this model if it wants to be considered seriously. -- Regards, Alexander Chemeris. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
