You'll simply not have the support from and visibility in the free software community,
choosing BSD over the GPL. So long as you're supporting yourself via a service model,
rather than a goods based
model, I don't think you lose anything by maintaining pure free software licencing.
--
Oliver White
Tim Cook wrote:
> Andrew po-jung Ho wrote:
> ...
> > >Use of the GPL is, by far better for the community.
> >
> > Hi Tim,
> > Sounds like you have been convinced. :-) I just can't imagine how being "far
>better for the community" > can be bad for FreePM - (analogous to "what's good for
>GM, is good for the country").
>
> I would not say taht I was convinced about the GPL. What I said
> was that it is better for the community. Maybe I should have
> added; "in the near term". I still think in the long term, GPL
> creates a non-sustainable model economically. Richard Stallman
> lived/lives in an artifical environment, literally. Below is a
> link to an examination and some discussions. It doesn't have the
> 'legal' analysis that Ron proposes but it is enlightening.
>
> http://www.softpanorama.org/OSS/bsd_vs_gpl.shtml
>
> -- Tim Cook, President --
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