Cedric wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Jose Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> I can share my experience too on this subject. In my previous company,
> it was a problem to contribute code back to a BSD licenced software
> (and GPL too). The lawyer and all the intellectual property guys would
> forbid us to give back code under this licence. In fact, only LGPL
> would have been a solution. That was the reason, why they choose GTK
> instead of anything else and without any technical consideration.
> To fix this problem, I changed for a smarter company. But that's just me :-)
>
Smarter or not.. again, who really knows. Companies make their choices,
individuals make theirs.. each based on whatever set of reasons. Sometimes those
reasons are the same or similar, sometimes they're not. For me, it's just a
personal decision.
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