Ah yes, the licensing issue. Is it something which has helped or hindered
the "E" project? Who knows. There are several other factors besides that one
which
one could point to as well, it's possible those may even be intertwined with
this
one... Again, who really knows for certain.
One could try and compare the 'success' of similar LGPL vs. MIT/BSD
licensed
projects... perhaps the Linux Kernel vs. other MIT/BSD-licensed kernels? Perhaps
in the gfx world, things like X say? Ummm, no real LGPL equivalent to X, so we
might only consider whether X has received as much help/resources as similarly
important projects -- I'd say it falls pretty short there. Perhaps compare the
success of GPL/LGPL vs. MIT/BSD licensed gui toolkits/frameworks? Ummm, I guess
Mono and E's, would fall in the latter camp, but most others in the former.
What are the reasons people prefer one type of license over another.. and
does that affect the number or quality of contributors or contributions? Again,
who knows. I don't like licenses in the software world - I think it's abhorrent.
But unfortunately, their existance and that of patents is very real so both
corps
and individuals have to make a decision.
Personally, I'd *never* contribute anything that I'd consider to be a
truly
serious, dedicated, body of time and work to a project that wan't LGPL or GPL.
But that's just me.
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