On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 08:48 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 02/03/2011 08:10 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote > > nope - just analyse all major projects and you will find that > license is > > largely irrelevant - the success/failure of a project depends on: > > > > 1. if there is a need for it > > 2. the attitude of the core developers > > > > I have given enough examples for this - so far the only evidence to > the > > contrary is the statement that one NetBSD developer told you this. > > License is very relevant and there a number of articles published > which > talk about this. Feel free to talk to any major project or FOSS > leader, take your pick from Glibc to GNOME, FreeBSD, Mozilla or > Apache > and you will find that they value their choice of license very > heavily. Your examples have merely shown that a license does not > guarantee success and I have made no claims to the contrary.
I do not hobnob with the biggies - but even at my level I value my choice of license very heavily. But the point is that you are yet to show how the choice of license is in *any* way relevant to the success or failure of a project. Unless the aim of the project is to produce bogus open source stuff in order to entice people towards one's closed source products - in this case the project is bound to fail unless one chooses the GPL. -- 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
