On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 17:05 -0800, Ashish Bhatia wrote: > I wrote a small blog post about common FAQ pertaining to FOSS > licenses. > While I do not consider myself an expert of this matter, this post is > just > an effort to present just a set of FAQ which software engineers > usually > have. > Any comments/suggestions are welcome here as well as in the blog post. > http://ashishb.net/legal/foss-free-and-open-source-code-licensing-faq/
looks to me that this is basically selling GPL - up to you. But there are two glaring mistakes. 1. You state that most companies use BSD license. This is wrong - most big companies use the GPL - especially those companies that violate the spirit of FOSS and release a watered down version of their code under GPL, but keep the full versions under proprietary licenses. 2. You say: avoid BSD/MIT license - can you explain why many major projects like python and postgresql are under the BSD license? Why do you want to avoid these two? and a minor quibble - AFAIK under the BSD license, one can take a copy of the code and modify it and make it proprietary - but if you do this, then you are not allowed to claim that it is a version of the said code (that is use the name and attribute it) -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com Coimbatore LUG rox http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
