Tim Cook wrote:
> Exactly. So how do you think that a BSD license will hurt us? It
> will only if there is no customer service.
I'm really not that much of a licence biggot, I'm certain it's not going to make that
much difference. What I think is that by using the BSD licence you're leaving yourself
open to being sucked back into
the molases of incompatible proprietary products.
If you can make that much money by making a small change to a public piece of software
and selling the result, is your business model really based in reality? In what way
can you make a small change to
the software and still differentiate yourself? Maybe I'm just a cynic, but all the
possiblities that spring to mind are pretty awful - software patents, incompatible
protocols...
My advice is this:
Write as much of the code as possible under the GPL licence. Wherever you need to work
with 3rd party proprietary software, LGPL just the parts of the code that have to link
or talk to those system
components. The LGPL is often used for these situations - for instance, one may make a
library GPL, but retain the header files under the LGPL, allowing anyone to link to
the library, but preserving the
implementation from proprietary forks.
If this is not a welcome solution, by all means use another free licence. However, I
believe this is the best option.
Cheers. :-)
--
Oliver White
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