On 02/05/2011 08:42 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
>
> well the whole thing started when you said 'look what happened to
> NetBSD' - so what happened

Not quite what I said.  The whole thing actually started off as a
commentary on licenses and not about success or failure about anything. 
If you want to look at how licenses impact development,  NetBSD is one
project you can look at and there are many others.  To convince
yourself,  one needs to catch up on the history of these projects with
too many details to cover here.  Feel free to do your reading and
research as I have. 

"strange - I got the impression you were pro GPL .."
 
That fundamentally seems to be your mistaken assumption and it is indeed
strange as I have already indicated,  licenses are tools to achieve
other goals and specifically noted that calling one license better than
other is not useful without context.  Permissive and copyleft licenses
both serve different needs .   While I work with predominantly copyleft
licenses,  the precise license choice I advocate is based on the
specific project in question and developers involved.  

Rahul
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