> With MIT (i.e. X11) or BSD type license someone could take your > program, improve it, keep the source code to their improvements > private and sell it as proprietary software. ...
This is a bit of myth; it turns out that MIT projects attract just as many project members, and they are just as active (*). Mainly this is self-interest: if you fix a bug or add a feature, but then keep it inside your company, maybe only half a dozen people test it for you. If you get it merged back into the project, thousands of people test it for you. Darren *: In fact they appear to attract more. E.g. all of the top-ten most active projects on GitHub use an MIT license. (impress.js is a semi-exception: it is dual-licensed, MIT and GPL; node.js is a mix of MIT and Apache licenses, but the actual Node.js code is MIT) _______________________________________________ gnugo-devel mailing list gnugo-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnugo-devel
